The Incentives Driving Economic Alternatives for the North, East, and West (IDEA-NEW) program dissuaded Afghans from growing poppy by increasing access to licit, commercially viable, alternative sources of income.
Sample Activities
Respond rapidly to community-identified needs—for roads, water, power, local reconstruction—with projects that foster trust and infuse communities with jobs and income.
Build on those gains with long-term projects focusing on sustainable growth in agriculture and rural development. IDEA-NEW is working in 15 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces and 152 priority districts.
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Created 55,041 full-time equivalent jobs in agriculture, community-constructed infrastructure, and rural-business development projects and paid more than $7.8 million in wages.
Benefited 1,089,356 families through community-constructed infrastructure projects, agriculture-voucher programs, grants, and capacity-building activities.
Expanded 14,522 hectares of alternative crops under cultivation.
Trained 497,009 farmers on approaches to increase agriculture productivity and 2,577 government line staff in areas related to their work.
Provided training to 15,347 business owners to improve their business skills and increase their sales.
Facilitated more than $8.1 million in agricultural exports.
IDEA-NEW prioritized local procurement and procured $13 million from Afghan vendors.
Provided improved care and management for more than 9.4 million livestock.
Feed the Future Tajikistan Agriculture and Land Governance Activity assists the government to sustainably reduce hunger, undernutrition, and poverty among smallholder farmers by developing more productive and efficient agriculture systems, building the resilience of smallholders, and improving the enabling environment to facilitate sustainable and long-term, ag-led growth.