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The politics of agricultural development in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI)

dc.contributor.authorJongerden, J.
dc.contributor.authorWolters, W.
dc.contributor.authorDijkxhoorn, Y.
dc.contributor.authorGür, Faik
dc.contributor.authorÖztürk, M.
dc.contributor.departmentInternational Relations
dc.contributor.ozuauthorGÜR, Faik
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-24T12:01:03Z
dc.date.available2020-06-24T12:01:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-11
dc.description.abstractFrom being a smallholder-based, food-producing country covering its basic needs, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) have become major importers of food. The sustainability of the agricultural sector has been systematically undermined by conflict, neglect, and mismanagement, as a result of which the capacity of its farmers to feed the population declined. Even though local policymakers, the international community, and the international organisations emphasise the potential of agriculture for food production, job creation, and income generation, they also tend to consider the current food system problematic because of an alleged low productivity that they relate to the existing smallholder system. For them, such system poses a lack of competences and skills of farmers, and a subsistence production orientation. This approach culminated in a policy-making process that offered land and water for capital investments, and thus neglecting the potentials and competencies of (small-scale) farmers. The concomitant neglect of the human dimension of agriculture, namely the family farm, is essentially the continuation of an economically and ecologically high-risk approach that may lead to a further decline of the sector's ability to produce food for the local market.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
dc.description.versionPublisher versionen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su11215874en_US
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050en_US
dc.identifier.issue21en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85074967619
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/6641
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su11215874
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.identifier.wos000501205200003
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherMDPI AGen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSustainability
dc.relation.publicationcategoryInternational Refereed Journal
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.keywordsAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIraqen_US
dc.subject.keywordsKurdistanen_US
dc.subject.keywordsProductivityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMarketen_US
dc.titleThe politics of agricultural development in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI)en_US
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