In rural Daikundi, many almond farmers are using rudimentary irrigation schemes like furrow irrigation to water almond trees. However, over long distances, a lot of water is lost with furrow irrigation. Today, climate change is leading to ever more frequent droughts in Afghanistan. Improving irrigation systems thus becomes a necessity for farmers. It enables them …
This winter, Afghanistan is suffering through a cold wave. Temperatures are consistently below zero and in some provinces they dropped to -34°C. It is the coldest winter in at least a decade. Climate change is increasing the likelihood for extreme temperatures. Resilience towards climate change requires being able to deal with temperature extremes. However, due …
12 families in Bagh are collecting their water from an unregulated spring. This creates health hazards as the water can easily be polluted. On the right, you can see the spring before our intervention. With some money that remained from the project in Shakar Palez we supported the locals regulate the spring. Now, they hope …
We will help 10 families in the tiny hamlet Dahanetol build an irrigation pool to better irrigate their almond trees.
Naim and the villagers of Barkar-e Hassan Raza bought the material for the irrigation channel. Transporting the bulky hoses across the mountains of Miramor was challenging.
We help villagers build an irrigation system to carry water from a small stream to their fields a kilometer away.
The first project of our initiative was to renew an irrigation pool in the village of Bagh, in Miramor Daikundi. Daikundi is a mountainous and very dry province in central Afghanistan. An important source of income for the inhabitants are almond tree plantations. But these almond trees need to be irrigated.Part of the irrigation infrastructure …