FAO in Afghanistan

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17 June 2021
FAO is promoting high conservation value forest species to help contain deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Paktia province Situated in eastern Afghanistan, Paktia province used to be renowned by its pine nut forests. But since the outbreak of the war with the Soviet Union in 1979, illegal logging has...
01 June 2021
Milk producers’ cooperatives provide a platform for Afghan rural women to improve their livelihoods and develop their leadership abilities, thanks to FAO training. Child marriage forced Hazifa to drop out of high school when she was 16 years old. At that time, she had no choice but to give up her...
10 May 2021
FAO to assist 245 000 marginal and food insecure people across Afghanistan thanks to UN CERF time-critical funding The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is supporting FAO in its efforts to anticipate the negative effects on livestock production...
04 May 2021
New EUR 2 million intervention to assist 88 200 people in four provinces through anticipatory actions to prevent massive loss of livestock due to La Niña induced drought 4 May 2021, Kabul – The European Union humanitarian aid agency and FAO will be partnering to anticipate the expected impacts of La Niña induced...
30 April 2021
Joint Press Release by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme One in three Afghans are acutely food insecure, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification...