Expanding oilfields versus ancient farmlands
In a zero-sum game of real estate, Basra farmers are losing their ancestral lands and livelihoods to Iraq’s oil boom.
Haloob al-Hamdani of the al-Muhitat village, holding his daughter, is among the thousands of Basrawi farmers being told to leave their land because it sits above the province's oil reserves. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
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