Title of paper: Cultivating refuge: the role of urban agriculture amongst refugees and forced migrants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

Domiz camp near Duhok in Kurdish Iraq, a refugee camp for Syrian Refugees. © 2017 Photo by Dirk-Jan Visser

Domiz camp near Duhok in Kurdish Iraq, a refugee camp for Syrian Refugees. © 2017 Photo by Mikey Tomkins

Domiz camp near Duhok in Kurdish Iraq, a refugee camp for Syrian Refugees. © 2017 Photo by Mikey Tomkins

Cultivating refuge: the role of urban agriculture amongst refugees and forced migrants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

MIKEY TOMKINS1, SAMI YOUSEF2,3, ANDREW ADAM-BRADFORD4, CARRIE PERKINS5, EVANGELINE GROSRENAUD4, MITCHELL MCTOUGH4,6, ANDRE VILJOEN1

1)School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton, UK

2)Department of Recreation and Ecotourism, College of Agriculture, University of Duhok, Iraq,

3)Botany and Modelling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation (AMAP), Université de Montpellier, France,

4)Centre for Agroforestry, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK,

5)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, US,

6)United Nations Development Programme, Iraq