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Seeding An Agricultural Infrastructure In Afghanistan Last week, a delegation of Afghanistan's top leaders came to Washington to work out a way forward with the Obama administration.

International actors are redoubling efforts to restore Afghanistan’s agriculture sector and weaken the massive opium trade that helps fund the Taliban. But competing strategies and corruption ...

The Scale of Food, Poverty and Agricultural Needs. While there are no reliable statistics virtually any aspect of Afghan agriculture, there does seem to be broad consensus about the scale of the ...

How turmoil in Afghanistan has impacted agriculture — a vital part of its livelihood Afghanistan is facing crisis on multiple fronts as borders are closed, farmers in the country are facing a ...

Rebuilding agriculture can boost confidence in Afghanistan's fragile government and pull farmers away from the drug money that fuels the Taliban insurgency, the US agriculture chief said on Sunday.

After security, U.S. officials say the top priority in Afghanistan is rebuilding the country's agriculture sector. The influx of farming aid and experts is expected to be a significant part of the ...

Deploying the plowshares: Restoring the Afghan agriculture sector will be key to turning back the Taliban -- Trudy Rubin . Updated: Jan. 21, 2010, 8:00 a.m.

"The Afghan government has put significant focus on rebuilding Afghanistan's agriculture, which has during the war been totally destroyed. From 1978 until 2001, every year 3 percent of ...

The restrictions and unfavorable agricultural and livestock conditions have created numerous challenges for women farmers. The Taliban’s rise to power has worsened the agricultural situation in ...

Pakistan cultivates garlic over an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 hectares annually, yielding around 70,000 to 90,000 metric tons.

Before they're deployed to help stabilize Afghanistan, hundreds of U.S. Army troops, Marines, and other government personnel head to Fresno, Calif., for a crash course on that war-torn country's ...