Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Collecting-Food-Aid-in-Afghanistan-27MZIFL20LIR.htmlConceptually similarLocal Population in AfghanistanGP01X3DCompleted★★★★Local Population in AfghanistanGP01X3NCompleted★★★★Local Population in AfghanistanGP01X3JCompleted★★★★Land Erosion in AfghanistanGP01X58Completed★★★★Drought in AfghanistanGP01X3GCompleted★★★★Burial Ground in AfghanistanGP01X3HCompleted★★★★Farmer in AfghanistanGP01X3LCompleted★★★★Floods in AfghanistanGP01X59Completed★★★★Boys in AfghanistanGP01X3CCompleted★★★★View AllGP01X3ECollecting Food Aid in AfghanistanThe population in the remote areas of northern Afghanistan is suffering from a severe drought. In the picture, men and boys walked for days to reach a food distribution site on the Kokcha river where British aid organization Oxfam is distributing wheat flour, cooking oil, tea and sugar. Climate change is causing erosion and a collapse of the fragile livelihoods for the majority of rural Afghans.Locations:Afghanistan-Asia-Shahr-e BozorgDate:1 Jun, 2001Credit:© Robert Knoth / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5500px X 3618pxKeywords:Climate (campaign title)-Climate change impacts-Day-Drought-Dry-Erosion-KWCI (GPI)-Local population-Men-Outdoors-Poverty-Roads-Two peopleShoot:Climate Voices from AfghanistanPhotographer Robert Knoth and writer Antoinette de Jong traveled on horseback for weeks around the remote areas of northern Afghanistan where the population was suffering from a severe drought. Climate change and overpopulation are causing erosion and a collapse of the fragile livelihoods for the majority of rural Afghans. The overgrazing and overpopulation are depleting meadows and agricultural lands, making these ever more vulnerable to the changing climate and increasingly extreme weather in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas mountain range. The Hindu Kush-Himalayas serves as water towers tot 1.3 billion people who depend on the glaciers to sustain their ecosystems and as a source of freshwater. The UNEP/World Glacier Monitoring Service estimated that the glacier area in northern Afghanistan decreased by more than 50 percent over the 20th century.
