irrigation

FAO project restores Mosul’s key irrigation canals

Some 200,000 people from Mosul and across Iraq will be able to earn an income for the first time since the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL) took parts of the area in 2014 through a new FAO project that is restoring irrigation of 250,000 hectares of farmland. Through the cash-for-work component of the project, it can support vulnerable families who need money for daily needs, including food and clothes,