FAO emergencies and resilience

Afghanistan

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43 million
country population

14 million people
in high acute food insecurity

80% of the population
derive their income from agriculture

to assist 5.9 million people FAO requires USD 193 million for 2025

Afghanistan is facing what has rapidly become one of the world’s largest food crises. Four decades of armed conflict, frequent natural disasters and increasing food prices have left almost half of the population without adequate means to produce or access food. With 80 percent of the population relying on agriculture for their food and income, providing vulnerable households with emergency livelihoods support is key to the humanitarian response.
Highlights
News
Japan contributes $11.9 million to scale up FAO’s emergency and resilience activities
21/02/2025

The funding will support 14 critical projects across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East

News
Carpe data, carpe DIEM
03/05/2024

How FAO's state-of-the-art data platform is speeding up emergency relief operations in Afghanistan and beyond

News
Afghanistan: the food security situation is improving, but the crisis is far from over
14/03/2024

Interview with Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO’s Resource Mobilization Division, on his recent field visit to Afghanistan to see how FAO is...

 
Key documents
05/2025

The Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities (SFERA) enables the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to respond swiftly and flexibly to food and agricultural emergencies.

05/2025

In the context of an existential funding crisis, soaring levels of humanitarian need and a spiralling number of extreme weather events, each dollar spent must go further.

03/2025

Sweden has reinforced its commitment to global food security with a total contribution of SEK 73 million (USD 7.23 million) to FAO’s emergencies operations in 2025.

 
 
Multimedia
Video
Empowering women through beekeeping in Bamyan province, Afghanistan
19/12/2024

In June 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO provided 200 women in Bamyan and in Kahmard district with beekeeping packages...

Video
Revitalizing Agriculture: The Success of Surkhrod Canal Rehabilitation
19/11/2024

The Surkhrod Canal, situated in Balabagh village, Surkhrod district of Nangarhar Province, covers 13.6 Km and plays a crucial role as an irrigation...

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