Highlighted Success: CNFA Offers Afghan Women New Ag Opportunities
CNFA is bringing agriculture to an important underserved population in Afghanistan: women. Through the Afghanistan Farm Service Alliance, an innovative partnership between CNFA and USAID, Afghan women will be able to directly purchase the agricultural inputs and services they need to make their family farms more productive and profitable.
Social convention has long prevented women from purchasing their own farm inputs since most input supply stores are staffed entirely by men and are therefore not accessible to women. The Kabul Women’s Farm Service Center (FSC), however, will allow Afghan women the unique opportunity to take the reins to increasing agricultural production. Currently under construction, the new FSC is operated entirely by women, from sales staff to technical trainers. The store will empower female farmers through knowledge transfer and by increasing their roles in decision making and purchasing of productive assets.
The Kabul FSC is one of seven FSCs established throughout Afghanistan. All CNFA FSCs offer high-quality products like seed, fertilizer, animal feed, tools, machinery, and greenhouse supplies.
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