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Box 1: The Agricultural Advisers

The Soils of War
The real agenda behind agricultural reconstruction
in Afghanistan and Iraq

by GRAIN
Barcelona, Spain
Box 1: The Agricultural Advisers
Since 2003, 25 USDA-funded Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) have been deployed to train Afghans in farming techniques. The following number of USDA agricultural advisers has been working with the PRTs:

No. of advisers
No. of months deployed
2003
3
6
2004
10
6
2005
10
6
2006
8
9
2007
8
9
2008
13
13
Source: USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service