Iraq: the greening of Al-Jazeera

The ICRC is changing the colour of the fields around a drought-racked village in Babil governorate central Iraq. Al-Jazeera's residents have always been farming people whose crops depend on water from nearby rivers here in the bread-basket of Iraq. But irrigation was made difficult by the violence of the past decade.

© Comité international de la Croix-Rouge - mercredi 16 mai 2012