Afghanistan
AFG Hero
43 million
country population
17.4 million people
in high acute food insecurity
80% of the population
derive their income from agriculture
Highlights
News
Bracing for El Niño: FAO and WFP launch joint appeal to protect 8.8 million people from extreme weather events
18/06/2026
Scaling up early action in 22 high-risk countries will help safeguard lives, livelihoods and food security
News
New FAO-WFP report warns worsening hunger puts 13 hotspots at significant risk
17/06/2026
Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine remain hotspots of highest concern, with Nigeria and Somalia joining the list as acute hunger risks deteriorate...
News
FAO and World Bank launch matching grants to support Afghan agribusinesses, create jobs and boost rural economies
20/05/2026
From the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Key documents
El Niño: FAO–WFP Joint Anticipatory Action Appeal, June 2026–March 2027
06/2026
Developing strong El Niño conditions are set to intensify droughts and floods across Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean, putting millions of food‑insecure people at risk through 2027.
Hunger Hotspots, FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: June to November 2026
06/2026
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 13 countries and territories identified as hotspots between June and November 2026, prompting an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these identified hunger hotspots.
Afghanistan: DIEM-Monitoring emergency agriculture support brief, November 2025 (round 11)
02/2026
This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the latest Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) round conducted in Afghanistan in September 2025.
Multimedia
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Safeguarding livelihoods of drought-affected livestock keepers in Afghanistan
07/10/2025
Afghanistan is in the grip of an acute drought, the worst in years. It is hitting farming families hard particularly across north, northwest and northeast...
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Revitalizing Agriculture: The Success of Surkhrod Canal Rehabilitation
19/11/2024
The Surkhrod Canal, situated in Balabagh village, Surkhrod district of Nangarhar Province, covers 13.6 Km and plays a crucial role as an irrigation...