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IRAQ 2016. Cash for work project

4 December 2016, Rabiya District, Ninewa Governorate, Iraq - Participants in FAO's cash for work project clean the main Al Jazeera irrigation canal as part of a project to resupply water for agricultural production for the first time since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took the area in 2014. The project is providing job opportunities and income for 500 families, and will enable 5,000 farmers to grow crops for trade and food through restoring water supply for agriculture. Once seasonal vegetable production, which relies on this water supply, recommences in northern Ninewa, up to 200,000 casual labourers will find work each vegetable season.

12/01/2016

Country or Territory Iraq

Project ID IRQ/16/001/01/31/

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Background Information Project: IRQ/16/001/01/31/Repair and provide spare parts for Al Jazeera irrigation system-suspended canals and traveling irrigation through cash-for-work