Helping the Afghan people through their livestock fghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 36% of the population below the poverty line. Of the 35.5 million Afghans, about 24 million are living in the countryside, being more or less dependent on agriculture and livestock.
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Danielle Huot (2017[1]) studies on ‘rural surplus’ that shows over 65.5% of rural Afghans do not have land, livestock, or any other assets. These groups of people live based on a patron-client social institutions where they cultivate the land or shepherd the herds of the better-off. However, what happens when these ‘rural surplus’ become old […]
My colleagues in Herat and I drove 121km from Herat City of Afghanistan to visit one of the recently graduated paravets that established a VFU in Barnavad village of Ghoryan District in Herat Province. The paravet named Hamidullah Abduljalil is a breadwinner of 7 family members including himself. DCA, the district government, the provincial and […]