Feed the Future Tajikistan Agriculture and Water Project

This new activity will improve nutrition through agriculture interventions within the USG Feed the Future (FTF) focus area, 12 districts in western Khatlon Province, by increasing the availability and affordability of nutritious crops and dairy products to reduce stunting and wasting of children. The activity will develop sustainable agriculture value chains with a focus on small holder farmers.

The activity will emphasize scaling technologies and support in order to extend the season for vegetable production, increase orchard production, and improving homestead dairy production. The activity will also improve marketing opportunities for farmers.

This will be accomplished in part by implementing and scaling up the agriculture advisory services and technologies for vegetable production developed by a current USAID funded activities. The activity will include a water component to continue legal and technical support for Water Users Associations.

Water is a foundation activity to any agricultural production program in Tajikistan due to the dominance of irrigated agricultural lands. This water activity will include local, river basin, and national activities.

This activity will also include a mass media component to promote public outreach of nutrition sensitive agriculture activities throughout the Feed the Future program in Tajikistan.

This activity is specific to USAID Central Asia Mission in Tajikistan and supports implementation of the Feed the Future initiative in Tajikistan.

Activities will be consistent with and reinforce the priorities of the Government of Tajikistan and reflect coordination with other donors and other projects, including the World Bank implementation of the multilateral Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) grant in Tajikistan.