United States Announces $80 Million Commitment to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to Improve Food Security and Nutrition for Vulnerable Afghans | Press Release

Today the United States, by way of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), introduced an $80 million dedication to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to enhance meals safety and vitamin for Afghans experiencing extreme meals insecurity, together with girls, women-headed households, and smallholder farmers and herders.

With this help, USAID will assist Afghan farmers improve the manufacturing of nutritious meals utilizing environmentally-sustainable practices, and improve the supply of high quality seeds and different agricultural inputs. This funding can even enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience to local weather and financial shocks by way of crop diversification and selling agricultural greatest practices, together with by way of assist to small-scale meals producers, girls, household farmers, pastoralists, and fishers. This assist can even profit small-scale Afghan agribusinesses, serving to to make sure sustainable meals manufacturing programs, and enhance the meals safety and vitamin of susceptible Afghan households.

Since August 2021, USAID has targeted on addressing excessive ranges of starvation ensuing from the financial collapse and compounded by years of drought and poor harvests. This funding builds upon greater than $775 million in humanitarian help that the United States has supplied to assist the individuals of Afghanistan since final August. Despite the Taliban takeover, USAID’s agricultural applications have continued to learn hundreds of Afghan farmers, together with girls, in 227 communities in Sar-e Pul, Jowzjan, Khost, and Nangarhar provinces.