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Widespread heat waves, floods, and droughts last year were a strong reminder of the threats posed by climate change. In the non-tropical dry areas where ICARDA works we are becoming accustomed to record high temperatures and increasing water scarcity year on year.
ICARDA has long-standing outreach programs in North Africa, the Nile Valley, and the Red Sea region (Fig 2). In its current strategic plan, the Center will extend its work to the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.
In Afghanistan, insecurity over land and water rights hampers investments in food production and irrigation. In rural areas, customary tenure systems, partly based on religious law, are the most relevant but suffer from weak recognition and offer little protection to rights holders.
Land is very important natural resource to the human being as it provides the basis for more than 95% of human food. On the broader context, land has many other functions, e.g.
Afghanistan is a country with diverse natural ecologies in a largely arid and mountainous region. The rural sector is still considered to drive economic potential.
Afghanistan joined FAO in 1949 and has a long history of technical cooperation with the Organization. Today the
Afghanistan country programme is one of FAO’s largest in the Asia and Pacific region. Ongoing projects in the country cover
Cooperation between Tajikistan and FAO has been ongoing since the country joined the Organization in 1995. FAO
assistance was initially provided in the form of short-term emergency interventions in response to a locust outbreak and
June 4, 2021 -- An increasing number of countries are facing growing levels of acute food insecurity, reversing years of development gains.
This report analyzes some key aspects of
food security, namely production, trade, markets and food
aid at the national level, and consumption at the household
level. In doing so it aspires to make a contribution to the
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