Sustainable food security and poverty reduction in Afghanistan through capacity development, research, and technology transfer in the agriculture sector of Afghanistan

Published on 28 July 2011

Research Areas

Agrobiodiversity, Climate Change, Crops, Seed Systems

Countries

Afghanistan

Timeline

Start Date: 15 January 2009 | End Date: 15 January 2012

Overview

The overall objectives of the project are to support the efforts of the government of Afghanistan to sustainably improve the food security and reduce poverty through capacity development, research, and technology transfer in the agriculture sector.
The project is focusing on the province of Urzgan while conducting some trials using the “mirror approach” in other provinces, and addressing the problem of capacity development at the national level. This approach ensures continuity of work and collection of useful data even if the project has had to abandon some of the experimental sites owing to security risks.