Crop failures grow as warming brings more heat and drought Farmers look to migrate - but urban opportunities are limited Resilient wheat seed offers help but distribution is limited By Tessa Fox ABU AL-KHASEEB, Iraq, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.