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Support agricultural livelihoods in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq

Support 23 000 smallholder-farming households in the coming three years to rebuild their agricultural livelihoods to diversify their income and achieve food security

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Baghdad, Iraq ;

Pages 1p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) The impact of conflict on the agricultural sector in Iraq has been devastating and includes damage to water systems, irrigation facilities and other agricultural infrastructure, disruption of value chains and losses of personal assets, crop and livestock production, and food supplies. This project will support vulnerable smallholder farmers to resume vegetable production, introduce efficient irrigation water use and management, encourage agri-food processing, improve small-scale dairy processing and marketing, and boost animal fodder production and conservation. Women, in particular, will be supported to participate in home-based vegetable and dairy production and processing. While unemployed young agriculture graduates will be encouraged to benefit from training to gain employment as agri-food processors, farmer field school and farmer business school facilitators, community animal health workers, market information system operators, and food security and nutrition data collectors and analysts.

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