Based on extensive survey work throughout the country carried out in 2002 and 2003, the paper presents a survey of female labour activity and remuneration in rural Afghanistan. In more than half the groups surveyed, women contribute to income-generating activities. The percentage is larger, but...

This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by the World Food Programme in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and...