FAO in Afghanistan

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06 December 2020
Since 2016, Kotwal village in Chinarto district of Uruzgan province is facing severe security challenges constraining any kind of humanitarian assistance including strict movement restrictions for all civilians’ activities. The situation in this area got further aggravated when the Kotwal irrigation canal was used as a trench by cutting and...
30 November 2020
“The most significant change that happened in my life is that I received only two lactating sheep with 2 baby lambs in 2018 and now after two years, I own eight sheep and eight lambs”, said Khadija Hashemi, a farmer in Bamyan province. Khadija Hashemi, 45, is a mother of eight...
22 November 2020
“Although we knew the benefit of eating an egg, we could not afford to buy however. We can now even consume it,” says Ms. Shagol, a resident of Omar khan village in the Paghman district of Kabul province. “We also sell the surplus eggs at the local market, and we...
15 November 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) has supported the development of Afghanistan’s first Agro-ecological zoning mobile application. Development of this mobile application was done under the FAO project titled “Strengthening Afghanistan Institutions’ Capacity for...
18 October 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the World Food Day (WFD) at MAIL in Afghanistan on 18 October 2020. Every year on the World Food Day, FAO and its 130 member...