Rapports

KABUL, 11 October 2015 – Boosting the position of women as equal partners in the agricultural industry is the aim of a new national strategy that is part of a larger Afghan-UN development project. Afghanistan’s Ministry of…

Conflict continues to cause new displacement Key Messages Conflict continues to cause new displacement in most regions of the country, with the greatest concentration of new displacement in Eastern, Northern and Northeastern regions, where conflict has escalated in…

Summary of WFP Assistance: WFP’s portfolio is comprised of a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO), Purchase for Progress (P4P), the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) and a Special Operation for a Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). WFP…

Wheat is the staple food for most Afghans, comprising more than 70 percent of their diet. Low-quality rice is a poor, but sometimes necessary, substitute. All markets represent significant population centers and consumer markets. Kabul, the…

HIGHLIGHTS: Wheat: Average wheat grain retail price in the main cities’ markets of the country was slightly fluctuating in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, it followed decreasing trend from January – August 2015. The current average wheat price…

In Afghanistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) reinforces smallholder farmers ‘capacity to transform agriculture, increase incomes and improve households’ access to nutritious foods. In August 2012, WFP and ACTED began a three-year partnership under WFP’s Purchase for…

Issue 32 of the Afghanistan Research Newsletter is now available on the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit’s (AREU) website. Newsletter 32 is the second issue published since the quarterly newsletter was revived in 2015 and the…

10/09/2015 Kabul, Afghanistan The number of people in Afghanistan resorting to selling land or turning to friends or family for help because of food insecurity has doubled in the last year, according to a joint report…

The FSAC has been a central part of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan since 2008. It is co-led by WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with a Non-governmental Organization as…

1. Introduction Afghanistan Food Security & Agriculture Cluster Context and establishment of FSAC in Afghanistan: The Food Security & Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) was established in 2011 by the UN RC/HC in response to the country wide coordination needs…