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02 July 2023
Khust province is in Southeastern Afghanistan and it is almost entirely covered by mountains and forests. The population is largely rural and grows cereals and vegetables such as wheat, barley, maize, rice, onions, potatoes, spinach, and leek on whatever land is left from forest cover. The rise in population and resultant...
Khust province is in Southeastern Afghanistan and it is almost entirely covered by mountains and forests. The population is largely rural and grows cereals and vegetables such as wheat, barley, maize, rice, onions, potatoes, spinach, and leek on whatever land is left from forest cover. The rise in population and resultant...
10 May 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned of a large-scale outbreak of the Moroccan Locust across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan, the country's wheat basket. The sightings of locust at different development stages have been made in Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Samangan, Sar-e-Pul...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned of a large-scale outbreak of the Moroccan Locust across eight provinces in North and Northeast Afghanistan, the country's wheat basket. The sightings of locust at different development stages have been made in Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Samangan, Sar-e-Pul...
29 March 2023
The people in Sayed Khel district of Afghanistan’s Parwan province, north of Kabul, are employed mainly in agricultural farming and are casual labourers. The major source of water for irrigation in the district, which is surrounded by mountains, is now that slowly melts during the spring and summer months. However,...
The people in Sayed Khel district of Afghanistan’s Parwan province, north of Kabul, are employed mainly in agricultural farming and are casual labourers. The major source of water for irrigation in the district, which is surrounded by mountains, is now that slowly melts during the spring and summer months. However,...
06 March 2023
The successive drought in Afghanistan has resulted in constrained access to food and income for most rural families with agricultural livelihoods. An increase in the frequency and intensity of drought in the recent years has forced many farmers and herders in the north-eastern Sar-e-Pul Province to deal with constant and...
The successive drought in Afghanistan has resulted in constrained access to food and income for most rural families with agricultural livelihoods. An increase in the frequency and intensity of drought in the recent years has forced many farmers and herders in the north-eastern Sar-e-Pul Province to deal with constant and...
05 March 2023
Afghanistan once had more than 450 000 ha of pistachio trees. Around 40 percent of this has been destroyed due to war and poverty. Over-exploitation of pistachio trees, overgrazing, unsustainable harvesting, and the limited number of rehabilitation and restoration initiatives have contributed to large-scale deforestation of pistachio trees across the...
Afghanistan once had more than 450 000 ha of pistachio trees. Around 40 percent of this has been destroyed due to war and poverty. Over-exploitation of pistachio trees, overgrazing, unsustainable harvesting, and the limited number of rehabilitation and restoration initiatives have contributed to large-scale deforestation of pistachio trees across the...
