Tractors in Afghanistan




RNZ: Country Life show

Summary: Marianne Elliott is a human rights lawyer who worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007 and has written a book, Zen Under Fire, about her experiences there. Last year she returned and visited a New Zealand Aid funded Agricultural Support Programme which is introducing mechanization to farmers in Bamyan province. She talks to Angus Davidson from Prime Consulting who is implementing the programme and visits a collective farm.