UN agri-coops changing lives of women in Afghan province

05 December 2013

United Nations supported local agricultural projects that encourage women to engage in collective farming are changing the lives of hundreds of women in the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, according to UN and government officials as well as beneficiaries.

“We established a garden – it belongs to 46 women who are members of a cooperative. We harvested good vegetable products for our families and the neighbours this year,” said Ms. Shaima, a member of a women’s cooperative in Badakhshan’s Shuhada district.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) helped set up the cooperative which now runs kitchen gardens and nursery projects. As part of the cooperative scheme, the women involved in these first received training on how to operate them by the FAO-established Women’s Development Centre (WDC).

Read the full story, UN-supported agricultural cooperatives help change lives of women in Afghan province, Reliefweb, 3 Dec