Afghanistan: War and Climate Stress Push Afghan Farmers to the Brink

Mar 23, 2026 | Fawad Ali
Dialogue Earth
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Afghanistan has lived through over four decades of armed conflict. It is also one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. These realities inextricably feed into each other. The violence has not only scarred the country politically and economically, but it has also crippled its ability to use and manage its own water. Irrigation systems have decayed, watershed planning has stalled, and rural infrastructure has been left to collapse.