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Tajikistan Food Aid Review (2003)
Tajikistan has experienced significant economic problems and civil conflict after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Several years of drought in the region reduced basic food crop production and nearly exhausted normal coping strategies. Annual national nutrition surveys revealed high rates of acute and chronic malnutrition.
For several years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) supported various Tajikistan food aid programs. The phaseout of these programs caused concern among implementing partners and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) regional Central Asia Mission (USAID/Almaty) about the future of food aid programming in Tajikistan.
A USAID Office of Food for Peace team assessed the implications of the potential closeout of USDA’s food programs in Tajikistan and recommended appropriate uses of food aid, including Title II resources. This review identified the underlying causes of the high reported rates of chronic and acute malnutrition, key factors that support and constrain food availability and access, whether current food aid programming was responding appropriately to the situation, and key constraints in implementing food security and food aid programs.
