Internal displacement is increasing after the loss of much agricultural land

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[size=52]Internal displacement is increasing after the loss of much agricultural land[/size]

[size=45]Yesterday, Tuesday, the Ministry of Environment indicated that 68,000 families have been displaced from the marsh areas this year due to water scarcity.[/size]
[size=45]The Undersecretary of the Ministry, Jassim Al-Falahi, said, “Forestry, or water scarcity, has caused an unprecedented deterioration in drought, desertification, and the shrinkage of agricultural lands, which led to the loss of 68 percent of the lands that were suitable for agriculture, accompanied by an unprecedented increase in the population, reaching one million and 300 thousand.” Iraqi annually,” according to the official Al-Sabah newspaper.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “the decline in agricultural areas and the increase in rates of desertification and dust and sand storms are certainly accompanied by what is called “internal displacement” and the forcing of citizens to leave their lands as a result of the lack of sufficient water, which forced 68 thousand families in the marsh areas during the summer of this year to move from their places. “Because they lost their livelihood after they were dependent on agriculture, raising buffalo, fishing, and birds.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Falahi warned that “internal displacement may be a justification for external displacement, or the establishment of slums on the threshold of cities suffering from a significant lack of services, which will be a hotbed for many social problems, and increased divorce rates as a result of the lack of an economic safety umbrella, and high rates of poverty and cases of drug abuse and gangs.” The organization, and their recruitment of terrorist groups, as a result of the loss of livelihoods.”[/size]
[size=45]Iraq is witnessing an unprecedented drought crisis, due to the decline in water levels arriving through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as a result of the water policies of Iran and Turkey, through building dams, diverting secondary river courses, and preventing their entry into Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]During the past two years, vast areas of the marshes in the south of the country have been exposed to drought and desertification, which prompted hundreds of families who live on agriculture and animal husbandry there to migrate to cities and other areas, after losing their farms and animals as a result of the drought.[/size]
[size=45]According to international climate classifications, Iraq is among the five countries in the world most affected by climate change and its repercussions on the environment and population. Last December, the World Bank called on Iraq to adopt a “greener and more environmentally friendly” development model to confront the climate challenge.[/size]
[size=45]Iraq has 19 dams, most of which were built on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries throughout the country. It relies mainly on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries for water, all of which originate in Turkey and Iran. The two rivers meet near the city of Basra (southern Iraq) to form the Shatt al-Arab.[/size]
[size=45]Iraq had reduced the area of ​​land covered by the seasonal agricultural plan by half, during the past year, due to an unprecedented wave of water scarcity that the country has been suffering for several years, as a result of Iran cutting off the tributaries of the Tigris River, and Turkey reducing the share of water heading to Iraq, while the Iraqi governments indicated The government has resorted several times to international institutions to obtain water from Iran, in accordance with water-sharing agreements, but the “government” has not taken any step towards internationalizing the file.[/size]
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