FAO in Afghanistan

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14 June 2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed an unprecedented $150 million contribution from the World Bank to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan, while boosting local food production and smallholder resilience.
09 May 2022
Kabul – Some 19.7 million people, almost half of Afghanistan’s population, are facing acute hunger according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted in January and February 2022 by Food Security and Agriculture Cluster partners, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations...
08 May 2022
Saeedullah, 25-year-old head of a seven-member family in Wama district of eastern Nuristan province, lives with his family under the old ceiling of a small dark room in Mandok village. The shelter, provided to him by the community members, is barely good to accommodate the family. Saeedullah’s family is lacking...
25 April 2022
The prospect of a plentiful wheat harvest brings hope and respite to Afghan farmers in trying times Sanam, Abdul Manan and Farhad are three farmers from Nangarhar province in the east of Afghanistan. Like most Afghans, their livelihood depends solely on agriculture and livestock. Their families belong to the half of...
18 April 2022
The establishment of woodlots and tree plantations improve sustainable land management in central Afghanistan Rangeland degradation is an issue of growing global concern, including for Afghanistan. Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, has become one of the country’s epicentres for rangeland degradation due to high levels of grazing and the increasing encroachment...