HOW EXTENSION AND PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAMS (PRT) HELPED THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN KIRKUK, IRAQ
Extension Education
Wendy Flatt
LIVESTOCK SPECIALIST/CPD
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
FAYETTE
Abstract
\r\n War torn countries like Iraq suffer from food insecurity and a lack of jobs, contributing to sectarian violence and instability. Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) based on military bases throughout Iraq were created by several federal departments including USDA, bringing civilian subject matter experts from the United States into Iraq to support private industry development. Private industry in Iraq is lagging, Kirkuk PRT, based on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Warrior in Kirkuk, Iraq; tasked the Economics/Agriculture Section with supporting and helping build a private sector in Kirkuk, Wendy Flatt Rapp, Livestock Specialist/CPD with University of Missouri Extension was a part of this team. This project, sustained the goals of COIN (counter-insurgency) strategy the military supported to create jobs instead of bombs. COIN was used in Iraq by both military and civilians to help bring jobs to Iraqis, the thought being, when people have jobs and hope for a future, they are much less likely to incite violence. In 2009, the Agriculture/Economics section of Kirkuk PRT focused on kick-starting the private dairy sector in Kirkuk, Iraq. Although Iraqis prefer locally produced dairy products, these products tended to be very unsanitary and much more expensive than imported dairy products. Kirkuk PRT worked with local Iraqi leaders to help the private dairy industry produce locally made, sanitary dairy products that could compete with imported products.
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Authors: Flatt Rapp Wendy
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Wendy, F. Extension Livestock Specialist/County Program Director, University of Missouri Extension, Missouri, 65248