Pre‐harvest Qualitative Assessment successfully completed
The pre‐harvest assessment was conducted by FAO, WFP and FEWSNET in close collaboration with MAIL during April/May and final report is recently concluded and shared with FSAC partners.
For the past six years, the pre-harvest assessment has become a tool which feeds into the decisionmaking processes for food insecurity response in Afghanistan. Pre-harvest Assessment is mainly qualitative, applying a combination of various techniques for convergence of evidence including remote sensing analysis, desk review of secondary documents, and ground data collection. The preharvest assessment was conducted by FAO, WFP and FEWSNET in close collaboration with MAIL during April/May and final report is recently concluded and shared with FSAC partners.
Objectives of this qualitative assessment include:
To pre-determine key areas of concerned that may likely affect food security situation; To identify “types of shock” that may impact acute food insecurity; and To perceive status of upcoming wheat harvest.