FAF deployed teams with a readily accessible and dedicated ability to respond to urgent humanitarian need, resulting from inadequate levels of food security, caused by disrupted indigenous agricultural production capabilities, in certain areas of operation.This was done by embedding an agricultural advisory team, consisting of one expatriate agricultural consultant and one local national extension officer, at selected areas, where inadequate …
Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative – South / Pomegranate Value Chain Assistance Phase II, 2010-11
The project provided support to the pomegranate harvest and provide technical assistance so that producers and small and medium size traders were able to improve their livelihoods through product differentiation (the difference in product quality, variety, packaging and service [logistical]) and access to new and existing domestic and international markets (means to penetrate new markets [buyers] that were not previously …
Realities in Nakhoney, Salevat and Mohajerin – Panjwai District, 2010
The purpose of the project was to provide baseline information needed for informed and appropriate decision-making regarding long term economic activities in the villages of Nakhoney, Salevat and Mohajerin, (Panjwai District, Kandahar) related to existing and potential agriculture-based value chains, equipment and farming techniques, production diversity, canal and irrigation mapping, existing marketing systems and the availability of agricultural credit, while …