{"id":3600,"date":"2025-12-18T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/un-support-afghan-farmers-poppy-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:00:17","slug":"un-support-afghan-farmers-poppy-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/un-support-afghan-farmers-poppy-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Launches Program to Support Afghan Farmers Affected by Poppy Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced ongoing efforts to bolster the resilience of local communities in Afghanistan through its &#8220;ACRP&#8221; project. This initiative focuses on expanding alternative livelihoods for rural farmers impacted by the Taliban&#8217;s ban on poppy cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the program also addresses the growing crisis of acute food insecurity and malnutrition\u2014challenges that have been exacerbated by climate change, population displacement, and other simultaneous pressures.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&#8217;s enforcement of a poppy cultivation ban, implemented without providing sustainable economic alternatives, has endangered the livelihoods of thousands of farming families and increased rural communities&#8217; reliance on humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>International organizations have repeatedly emphasized that the success of any anti-narcotics policy depends on practical programs aimed at creating jobs, sustainable income, and farmers&#8217; access to markets\u2014factors that, critics argue, have not been sufficiently addressed in the Taliban&#8217;s current policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP program aims to support Afghan farmers hit by Taliban&#8217;s poppy ban, offering alternative livelihoods amid rising food insecurity and displacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}