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20 March 2024
In the beautiful village of Landakhil, located in the Pachir Agam district of Nangarhar province, a transformative initiative unfolded between April 4, 2023, and December 4, 2023, courtesy of the generous support from the World Bank and implemented by FAO-Afghanistan. This rural haven, with its rich cultural tapestry, witnessed a...
In the beautiful village of Landakhil, located in the Pachir Agam district of Nangarhar province, a transformative initiative unfolded between April 4, 2023, and December 4, 2023, courtesy of the generous support from the World Bank and implemented by FAO-Afghanistan. This rural haven, with its rich cultural tapestry, witnessed a...
11 March 2024
If one asks a male Afghan farmer about the role of his family’s women in the farm, he will readily admit that women do at least half of the work. This hasn’t been affected by the change of government in 2021. The subsequent partial bans on women working by the...
If one asks a male Afghan farmer about the role of his family’s women in the farm, he will readily admit that women do at least half of the work. This hasn’t been affected by the change of government in 2021. The subsequent partial bans on women working by the...
27 February 2024
Almost all Afghan farmers are independent smallholders. Besides a few jerib of land (5 jerib = 1ha or 2.5 acres) they typically own a few animals. Besides Afghanistan’s 1.5 million Kuchi nomads, who live exclusively from their livestock and have larger herds, most Afghan farmers have 1 or 2 cows...
Almost all Afghan farmers are independent smallholders. Besides a few jerib of land (5 jerib = 1ha or 2.5 acres) they typically own a few animals. Besides Afghanistan’s 1.5 million Kuchi nomads, who live exclusively from their livestock and have larger herds, most Afghan farmers have 1 or 2 cows...
21 February 2024
Since 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been carrying out a long-term initiative in three provinces of Afghanistan (Khost, Laghman, and Nuristan) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project’s title is self-explanatory: “Combating Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss by Promoting Sustainable...
Since 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been carrying out a long-term initiative in three provinces of Afghanistan (Khost, Laghman, and Nuristan) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project’s title is self-explanatory: “Combating Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss by Promoting Sustainable...
30 January 2024
FAO Afghanistan has demonstrated that providing emergency assistance to farmers is a sustainable, dignified and cost-effective strategy to avert a major humanitarian crisis. Whereas FAO was traditionally seen as a development-oriented technical agency working together with host governments on relatively small-scale projects, it has played a demonstrable role in reversing...
FAO Afghanistan has demonstrated that providing emergency assistance to farmers is a sustainable, dignified and cost-effective strategy to avert a major humanitarian crisis. Whereas FAO was traditionally seen as a development-oriented technical agency working together with host governments on relatively small-scale projects, it has played a demonstrable role in reversing...
