Afghanistan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment

Publisher: UNEP

Date: 2003

Topics: Assessment

Countries: Afghanistan

”In the capital of Afghanistan there is a saying: May Kabul be without gold than without snow. For most of the country’s people e land, its biological resources and its ecological processes are the source of their livelihood and the foundation for their existence. Apart from the country’s most arid deserts and frozen mountains, virtually the entire land surface of Afghanistan has been used for centuries – whether for local farming or, on a more wide-reaching basis, for livestock grazing, fuelwood collection and hunting.”