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 also gathering information on the main economic, political and ethnic grievances of the population that are causing violence in the area.
