Peter Schwartzstein 

A Hot Dusty Crossroads: How Waves of Environment-Related Displacement are Transforming Rural – and Urban – Iraq

Rural Iraq is withering under a combined onslaught of environmental degradation and poor governance, and in few places is this more evident than among the fields and fast-expanding districts of peri-urban southern Baghdad. Peter Schwartzstein, an environmental journalist who covers water, food security, and conflict-climate issues across the Middle East and Africa, talks with farmers across the area about their dire circumstances while providing thoughtful analysis, rich in context.
