Iran faces political population bomb: a young, growing and urbanized population that wants food – cheap and traditional. Iran’s population has doubled in the last 40 years, hitting 75 million people today. Half of all Iranians are under 35 years of age, and 71 percent live in cities.
Immediately to the north, lies help: the fallow grazing lands of Armenia.
Fewer and fewer Armenian men want to make a living as shepherds, tending sheep on scenic, but lonely mountain slopes. Armenia’s agriculture ministry says that 70 percent of the nation’s pastures are now without livestock – about 800,000 hectares.
Here’s the deal:
Iran’s Ambassador Mohammad Reisi offers to rent thousands of hectares of mountain pastures to provide grazing land for Iranian sheep.
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