Integrated Emergency Livestock Protection in Support to Drought-Affected Pastoralists in Balkh and Samangan Provinces - TCP/AFG/3702
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In Afghanistan, the 2017/2018 winter planting season was severely impacted by the El Niño-induced drought, leaving most parts of the country with 70 percent below average precipitation. As a result, fields were left unplanted, crops withered, pastures suffered severe degradation, and livestock had insufficient feed and fodder. The drought particularly affected the northern region of the country, which had been facing successive years of dryness during the wet seasons. According to the 2017 Seasonal Food Security Assessment (SFSA) carried out by the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC), around 320 907 people in Samangan Province and 414 646 people in Balkh Province had reported poorer access to water compared with 2016. Water availability in 2018 further declined in both provinces, because of the drought. The lack of water forced sedentary livestock farmers to seek costly and less accessible alternative water sources for their livestock, negatively affecting household economy, livelihoods and food security.