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Baghdad, 05 July 2023 - After 5 years of fruitful collaboration between UN-Habitat Iraq and the Ministry of Migration and Displacement (MOMD) of Iraq, a cooperation framework was signed under the patronage of HE Mrs. Evan Faeq Gabro.

FAO Iraq is deeply concerned about the grave consequences of climate change and water scarcity on the marshes (Al Ahwar) and buffalo producers in the Southern Iraq. Alarming field reports from the project team, which the organization is implementing in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and European Union (EU) funding, indicate that the marshes are experiencing the most severe heat wave in the last 40 years, accompanied with a sudden water shortage in the Euphrates River. The dire situation is having a devastating impact on the marshes system; buffalo producers, farmers, and fisheries forcing many of them leave their homes and migrate mainly to Salah Eddine, Najaf, Karbala and Babel in the central part of Iraq and other cities, searching for drinking  water, food, feed and employment.