FAO in Afghanistan

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04 October 2018
Kabul, October 4, 2018. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) programme organized a five-day technical training workshop. This workshop focused on providing technical assistance to build the methodological and statistical capacities of government officials on...
17 September 2018
Kabul, September 17, 2018 - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), the National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) and other stakeholders officially launched the GEF project, “Community-Based Sustainable Land and Forest Management in...
29 August 2018
Japan has announced new assistance of USD 5 million to a project entitled “Improving Economic Growth in the Western Region of Afghanistan through Community Irrigation and Livelihood Enhancement” implemented by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The project is aimed to support three major components 1) improved watershed management; 2) water...
30 July 2018
A 13-member delegation of high-level government officials and members of the Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda (AFSeN-A), led by H.E. Nasrullah Arsalai, Director General of the Afghan Council of Ministers’ Secretariat, spent five days in Bangladesh learning how multi-sectoral and inter-ministerial coordination and governance can help improve food security...
27 June 2018
Istanbul, Turkey – On the 27-28th of June 2018, Chief Veterinary Officers and other animal experts from the Governments of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in Istanbul, Turkey for the second multilateral meeting on Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) in the Central/Southern/Western Asia regions. The Food and Agriculture Organization...