Field Exchange - Issue 14

This issue of Field Exchange contains a guest editorial on Afghanistan by Mark Myatt who worked in Badhakshan and Takhar provinces in Northeast Afghanistan in the period leading up to the current conflict. With the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan unfolding day by day Mark has chosen to focus on intervention needs when the military and security situation has eventually stabilised. If, as seems likely, there will then be need for a large scale aid programme along the lines of the recent Balkan intervention, Mark asserts that the judicious use of food aid could have a significant role in achieving the wider aims of such an intervention. This will necessitate modifying the types of food aid programme that have been implemented by humanitarian agencies in the period leading up to the 11th of September.