The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder.This week ...

Muhad, a Muslim boy from Afghanistan, attends college in California ... Muhad is forced to head North with the rest of the farmers to harvest the poppies. Victoria has settled into her new ...

4 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Commerce and Industry plans to rebuild and reactivate 14 cold storage facilities across the country, aiming at helping farmers preserve ...

According to UN officials, “Catastrophic and famine-like conditions” hang over Afghanistan’s farmers and herders, whose needs continue to worsen with the onset of winter. A Rome-based UN agency, said ...