Afghanistan experienced an extraordinary situation in 2021 that presents a complex example of how an intensified level of conflict and the global COVID-19 pandemic of added to an increasing prevalence of drought due to climate change has been affecting people’s livelihoods from different angles. Orzala Nemat and Vidya Diwakar discusses this issue and research that investigates overlapped crises.

Orzala Nemat, an internationally known Afghan scholar & think tank leader.

Vidya Diwakar is Deputy Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), hosted at the Institute of Development Studies

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Image courtesy of interviewee. October 16, 2022