n an important step toward financing its first post-war agricultural investment project in Iraq, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) met with a high-level Iraqi delegation in Rome last week. The project will target 20,000 rural households in the poorest southern governorates of Missan, Thi Qar, Qadissiyah and Muthana.

Amman/Rome, 18 October 2016 – The development of the first strategic roadmap for investment in smallholder agriculture and rural development in Iraq is