Kabul : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), c2009.
16 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Women – Afghanistan – Social life and customs.
Women – Afghanistan – Social conditions.
Natural resources – Afghanistan.
Pamphlet HQ 1735.6 .W66 2009
16988 16989
Cover title.
“September 2009”.
“United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)”—at head of title.
“Also in Dari and Pashto”.
Summary: “Afghanistan’s women contribute enormously to the management of the country’s natural resource, and therefore to sustaining both rural and urban livelihoods. The fulfill several roles, from providing agricultural labour, cultivating fruit and rearing livestock, to collecting wood and maintaining the family unit through cooking, cleaning and child care”—(p. 4).