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Program Data Sheet 306-001 USAID PROGRAM: Afghanistan PROGRAM TITLE: Agriculture (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade) STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Reestablish Food Security, 306-001 STATUS: New PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $10,000,000 DA PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: TBD INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2002      ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2005 Summary: USAID’s first priority is to reinvigorate the Afghan economy through job creation, training, and technical assistance. Most of these efforts will focus on restoring agricultural productivity, particularly in the country’s high potential irrigated areas. USAID plans to address the twin goals of rebuilding the Afghan economy through creating employment, and restoring the country’s capacity to feed itself. Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: To restore food security in the short and long run, USAID will focus on three goals, beginning in FY 2002— revitalizing agricultural production. USAID will identify and supply critical agricultural inputs, including seeds, tools, and fertilizer for the 2002 spring planting season. restoring livelihoods to create economic capacity to purchase food and other basic needs. USAID will fund community service programs that generate employment and income. alternative crops. USAID will provide agricultural inputs and technical assistance to give farmers the opportunity to grow and market alternative crops to poppy. If crop substitution does not begin immediately it will be much harder to achieve later. FY 2003 Program: USAID will use FY 2003 funds to build on the work begun in the first year of the program, focusing on longer-term efforts like improving the quantity and quality of water available for households and agriculture. Technical assistance will work through the Ministry of Irrigation and NGOs, to establish a quick extension program of on-farm water management, including water harvesting and conservation. Efforts will focus on developing Afghan capacity for community-level irrigation management. Limited and targeted credit will be extended to farmers for agricultural inputs. Credit is key to the agricultural production and counternarcotics efforts: by expanding farmers’ access to credit, USAID will establish programs to resolve the issue of indebtedness, to create incentives for farmers to produce crops other than poppy. In the longer run, it will be advisable to rehabilitate the horticultural sector as an avenue for exports. SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL NOTIFICATION OF USAID'S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 FUNDS FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Performance and Results: Using food-for-work and other resources, extensive employment programs will rehabilitate key agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation systems and rural feeder roads beginning in FY 2002. Other coordinated programs will rebuild basic infrastructure, such as shelter, local roads, water supply and sanitation systems, power systems, schools, and health clinics. Poppy production is now at its lowest historical levels; programs will use the narrow window before the spring planting season to create alternative means of generating income. U.S. programs will begin with funds pledged to help Afghanistan develop a drug enforcement capability; to help the UN assess the size of the current opium crop; and to develop policy options to discourage resumption of opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking. USAID will support alternative agricultural development, labor-absorbing activities and programs to offer credit alternatives to poppy farmers. Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: To be determined: international and Afghan NGOs; private contractors; U.S. universities; the Afghan Interim Authority. US Financing in Thousands of Dollars 306-001 Reestablish Food Security DA ESF Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 10,000 10,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 10,000 10,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 4,800 10,000 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 14,800 20,000

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