"So there are fewer jobs, not much working infrastructure, scarcity of water, few schools, few hospitals. Due to long periods of conflict in Iraq, rural areas are already resource starved, he told DW. "Rural towns in Iraq already face a number of issues," says James Munn, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council's Iraq office. This makes agriculture difficult, if not impossible, and causes farming families to migrate to Iraq's cities in search of work and opportunity. Around 92% of Iraqi land is threatened by desertification and temperatures here are increasing seven times faster than the global average.
The United Nations says Iraq is one of the five countries in the world worst affected by climate change. These are the kinds of societal problems that Iraq is likely to see more of. But it does cause problems." Already in 2021, 37% of Iraqi farmers reported wheat crop failures and 30% reported barley crop failures Image: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images A growing problem I mean, I'm from the countryside originally so I understand where they're coming from. "So the farmers come to Baghdad and they think the women wearing Western clothes are prostitutes," Habib says, laughing a little. "In the villages, women are more covered," she explains, referring to long tunics and robes that show even less of the female figure. Habib is religious herself and wears a headscarf but the rest of her wardrobe involves modest garments like long-sleeved shirts and jeans, a common look in Baghdad.
Rural families are not accustomed to seeing women wearing Western-style clothes, she says. Habib offers a further example of the growing rural-urban culture clash in Iraq. I've seen people get into fights," she told DW. But the farmers from the country don't understand this and they come out and start arguing. It's OK just to sit on the street outside somebody's house. "In the village, like the one I come from, people do not accept strangers sitting outside their property or on their walls," explains the journalist, who lives in Baghdad's affluent Karada neighborhood but is originally from a small town outside of Karbala she did not want to give her real name for fear of upsetting her family back home or her neighbors. In Baghdad, the arguments usually start off small, says Marama Habib, a long-time resident of the Iraqi capital.
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