Iraq Salinity Project Technical Report

The Iraq Salinity Project was created in 2010 to understand the current salinity crisis and improve livelihoods through sustainable use of available water and soil resources in central and southern Iraq. It aims to evaluate the economic impact of salinity and produce a “road-map” to manage the problem over a 15 year time frame.

This project determines the contribution of the various complex factors at play in the current low agricultural productivity in Iraq. The inefficiency of the irrigation and drainage system had contributed extensively to the degradation of physical infrastructure. Institutional capacity in the agricultural sector also needs to be upgraded along with intensified training for the Iraqi farmers.