Afghanistan is starving. The country is in the grips of what the United Nations says is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, in Afghanistan, a combination of decades of conflict in the country, the COVID-19 pandemic, economic collapse, and recent years of drought has had a devastating impact on food security in the country. Afghanistan is one of the most aid-dependent countries in the world
Agriculture remains Afghanistan’s most important source of employment and more of Afghanistan’s population works in this sector, although it accounts for less than a third of Gross Domestic Products (GDP) due to insufficient irrigation, drought, lack of market access, and other structural impediments
The situation is dire because agriculture is the backbone of Afghan livelihoods and critical for Afghanistan’s economy.
People’s livelihoods, food production and food security and almost half of the total population face acute food insecurity – hunger on a daily basis – reaching over 70 percent in many rural areas.
