AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/402/JPN: Government scientist at Central Animal Health Laboratory in Kabul. She trains the next generation of male and female veterinary students in modern animal disease laboratory technique...

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/402/JPN: One of the 10 million dosages of vaccine that can now be stored at the Central Animal Health Laboratory in Kabul thanks to laboratory upgrades and staff training courtesy of FAO.

AFGHANISTANFemale pastoralist in small village in Herat hit hard by the 2018 drought. FAO Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Dominique Burgeon and FAO Afghanistan team visited this village to lea...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Woman who is learning how to take better care of her sheep and goats, and earn more money for herself and her family, all thanks to training and animal health support from FAO.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: This woman watched her cousin get shot by the Taliban, fled her village, and survived for years under Taliban persecution. She then educated herself, started several businesses, and i...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Woman who is feeding children under a FAO school lunch program. She has learned how to grow and buy healthy vegetables, and then prepare them into healthy and hygienic meals for chil...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Woman who is learning how to start and grow a backyard poultry farm thanks to training and financial support from FAO.

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/070/AFG: Farmers who now have increased irrigation water supplies, and decreased local conflict over water, thanks to FAO work on restoring irrigation canals in their village.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Woman who has learned better milking practices, helping keep her milk more hygienic, thanks to training from FAO.

AFGHANISTANChildren pleased to see FAO helping their families grow more crops and earn more money in Balkh.

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/070/AFG: Staff of the Ministry of Energy and Water and Afghanistan's most senior female water engineer at a wheat research station. She received training in everything from English to computer...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Government staff at a wheat research station. He received training in selecting for high-quality wheat and conducting wheat trials from FAO.

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/070/AFG: Farmers who now have increased irrigation water supplies and better crop yields thanks to FAO work on restoring irrigation canals in their village.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Former Mujahadeen fighter turned dairy cooperative owner, thanks to training and encouragement from FAO's dairy development projects.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Woman trained on improved livestock care and better dairy production through one of FAO's many dairy development project. Her income has nearly quadrupled thanks to this training.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: FAO staff inspecting potato plants at potato greenhouses in Kabul built and equipped by FAO, with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Potato growth experiments at the Kabul potato laboratory built and equipped by FAO, with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Potato growth experiments at the Kabul potato laboratory built and equipped by FAO, with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Clean test tubes ready for potato tissue culture experiments at the Kabul potato laboratory built and equipped by FAO, with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Hamdullah Hamdard, touring the potato tissue culture laboratory built and equipped by FAO with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: FAO staff showing off potato tissue culture experiments during a VIP visit to the Kabul laboratory built and equipped by FAO, with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: A Bamyan potato farmer and his family, all of whom are benefitting from increased potato sales, thanks to improved farming techniques taught by FAO.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: A Bamyan farmer showing off his potatoes that are growing faster than before thanks to training from FAO.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Potato plants growing in a greenhouse owned by the district government in Bamyan. FAO works with government staff to train them in better potato growing techniques.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: Teachers and students from a girls' high school in Bamyan listening to a demonstration on potato growing from clean potato seeds.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Farmer who worked with FAO to produce high-quality wheat seed, shaking hands with FAO staff and an old friend.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Farmer who worked with FAO to produce high-quality wheat seed that could be certified and sold to other farmers. Thanks to training from FA), his wheat yields and profits are much hig...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Certified wheat seed at the Shir Abad Seed Company. This company, along with many others, was established, equipped, and staff trained thanks to support from FAO.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Certified wheat seed at the Shir Abad Seed Company. This company, along with many others, was established, equipped, and staff trained thanks to support from FAO.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/018/EC: Bags of certified wheat seed at the Shir Abad Seed Company. This company, along with many others, was established, equipped, and staff trained thanks to support from FAO.

AFGHANISTANWheat at government wheat research farm. FAO has supported training of technical staff for these farms, allowing Afghanistan to produce higher quality and better-adapted wheat.

AFGHANISTANWheat at government wheat research farm. FAO has supported training of technical staff for these farms, allowing Afghanistan to produce higher quality and better-adapted wheat.

AFGHANISTANMan working at government wheat research farm. FAO has supported training of technical staff for these farms, allowing Afghanistan to produce higher quality and better-adapted wheat.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/502/JCA: A Bamyan farmer showing off his potatoes that are growing faster than before thanks to training from FAO.

AFGHANISTANFAO staff at March 2017 AgFair, working in the FAO booth.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/502/JCA: Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Hamdullah Hamdard, touring the potato tissue culture laboratory built and equipped by FAO with support from Japan.

AFGHANISTANThe mountains of the central province of Bamyan.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Potato fields in mountainous Bamyan, planted by farmers trained in improved potato growing techniques by FAO.

AFGHANISTANMarch 2018 AgFair, one of the biggest public events in Afghanistan, is held next to the mountains at Badam Bagh Fair Grounds.

AFGHANISTANChildren in Balkh, saluting FAO and the work it has done for their families.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Potatoes collected from potato farmers in Bamyan who are learning how to produce potatoes from clean potato seed.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Pastoralist working with FAO's Household Food and Livelihoods Security project in Bamyan, learning how to better feed and look after the health of her sheep, and earn more money for h...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Lunch is served at a school in Bamyan, where FAO is teaching adults to grow, buy and make healthy school lunches in order to determine if it helps children grow faster.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/088/LUX: Children in classroom being served by FAO's school lunch program. The program teaches adults to grow and buy healthy foods, and then prepare nutritious, hygienic lunches. The size of...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/072/LUX: Mushrooms grown, packaged and sold in Balkh thanks to FAO training on mushroom growing for women's groups.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/072/LUX: Mushrooms that were grown in Balkh being processed and packaged thanks to FAO training on mushroom growing for women's groups.

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/072/LUX: A mushroom grower, taught by FAO. As a single mother, she now earns enough money growing and selling oyster mushrooms to send her children to school, and she has taught other women in...

AFGHANISTANBoy in live animal market visited by FAO Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Dominique Burgeon and FAO Afghanistan team during a trip to Herat. Animal prices were low because of distress...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/089/USA: The record keeping system used to identify which vulnerable pastoralists affected by the 2018 drought received bags of concentrated animal feed. The bags are procured and distributed...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/089/USA: Bags of concentrated animal feed ready to be given to vulnerable pastoralists affected by the 2018 drought in Herat. The bags are procured and distributed by FAO, with funding from US...

AFGHANISTANChildren in small village in Herat hit hard by the 2018 drought. FAO Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Dominique Burgeon and FAO Afghanistan team visited this village to learn about i...

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/810/ROK: Vulnerable farmers in Badghis affected by the 2018 drought, waiting to get bags of wheat seed and fertilizer given out by FAO courtesy of funding from Korea.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/810/ROK: Bags of fertilizer given out in Badghis by FAO, with funding from Korea, in response to the 2018 drought. This fertilizer, along with high-quality wheat seeds will allow many farmers...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/089/USA: Bags of concentrated animal feed ready to be given to vulnerable pastoralists affected by the 2018 drought in Herat. The bags are procured and distributed by FAO, with funding from US...

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/810/ROK: Vulnerable farmers in Badghis affected by the 2018 drought, waiting to get bags of wheat seed and fertilizer given out by FAO courtesy of funding from Korea.

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/810/ROK: Bags of fertilizer given out in Badghis by FAO, with funding from Korea, in response to the 2018 drought. This fertilizer, along with high-quality wheat seeds will allow many farmers...

AFGHANISTANDonkey feeding outside of a refugee camp in Badghis for the internally-displaced due to the 2018 drought. FAO Afghanistan visited this camp and gave out wheat growing inputs to farmers just outside o...

AFGHANISTANOSRO/AFG/810/ROK: Local agriculture official (left), FAOR Rajendra Aryal (center) and the Ambassador of Korea Rhee Zha-hyoung (right) at a wheat and fertilizer distribution event in Badghis. Bags of w...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces high-fat high-quality milk, cheese, butter and yogurt that it sells fresh through sales outlets every day. This display...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Union, established with FAO support, produces high-fat high-quality milk, cheese, butter and yogurt that it sells fresh through sales outlets every day. This union, o...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed from local fodder crops and an assortment of added nutrients and vitamins. A worker sews up a ba...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed from local fodder crops and various nutrient-rich additives, such non-consumable excess pasta, s...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed from local fodder crops and an assortment of added nutrients and vitamins, such as the salt show...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed from local fodder crops and an assortment of added nutrients and vitamins, one of which is shown...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed from local fodder crops and an assortment of added nutrients. This finished product is sold to l...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: Worker at the feed processing center of the Kabul Dairy Plant. The plant, which was established with FAO support, produces concentrated animal feed that it sells to local farmers so t...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: FAO staff member Luthfullah Rlung explains the feed processing center of the Kabul Dairy Plant to Dutch Ambassador Ernst Noorman during a tour of the plant. The plant produces concent...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, supplies locally-sourced fresh milk, cheese, butter, yogurt and cream to the residents of Kabul. Dutch Ambassador Ernst Noorman (...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: The Kabul Dairy Plant, established with FAO support, supplies locally-sourced fresh milk, cheese, butter, yogurt and cream to the residents of Kabul. The FAO dairy team, FAO Represent...

AFGHANISTANUTF/AFG/080/AFG: Under one of FAO's several Integrated Dairy Sector Development projects, provincial dairy plants were established. Here at the plant in Kabul, which is processing at maximum capacity,...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Under one of FAO's several Integrated Dairy Sector Development projects, provincial dairy plants were established, like this one in Balkh. At these plants, farmers milk collected at t...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Under one of FAO's several Integrated Dairy Sector Development projects, local dairy cooperatives were established. At these local centers, like this one in Balkh, farmers milk is co...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Under one of FAO's several Integrated Dairy Sector Development projects, local farmers were trained how to raise healthier cows that produce higher quality milk. This woman works for...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: Under one of FAO's several Integrated Dairy Sector Development projects, local farmers were trained on how to build better cow sheds and raise healthier cows that produce higher quali...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: A worker testing milk fat at the Balkh dairy plant, one of five dairy plants established nationwide under FAO's dairy development projects. The plant was staffed and equipped, and loc...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: A worker supervising milk intake at the Balkh dairy plant, one of five dairy plants established nationwide under FAO's dairy development projects. The plant was staffed and equipped,...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: A driver for a district dairy cooperative outside of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh preparing to drive milk brought in by local farmers to the provincial dairy union. The cooperative was staff...

AFGHANISTANGCP/AFG/040/GER: A worker in a dairy cooperative outside of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh measures the fat content of milk brought in by local farmers. The cooperative was staffed and equipped, and local farm...