Asia and Eurasia Projects
Current Projects

| Kyrgyzstan
Junior Master Gardener program in Kyrgyzstan
"Learn, Grow, Eat and Go!" school gardening curriculum, implemented by the Borlaug Institute, JMG, and Mercy Corps in Kyrgyz schools.

| Uzbekistan
Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA)
The Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA) is funded by USAID and lead by Chemonics, to whom the Borlaug Institute is a subcontractor on this project. The ADA aims to improve the agribusiness sector in Uzbekistan.

| Afghanistan
Afghanistan Value Chains – High Value Crops (AVC-HVC)
The AVC-HVC project will work with anchor firms nationwide to reverse market failures, strengthen backward and forward linkages, drive growth, and create jobs for men, women, and youth along the fruit and nuts, high-value horticulture, spices, and medicinal crops value chains.

| Afghanistan
Afghanistan Value Chains – Livestock (AVC-L)
AVC-L will work with private-sector anchor firms in the dairy, poultry, small ruminants, Apiculture (bee keeping), and other livestock value chains across Afghanistan, supporting their sustained growth.

| Afghanistan
Women’s Scholarship Endowment (WSE)
The Women’s Scholarship Endowment (WSE) Activity, a research project, aims to assist Afghan women to obtain a university education in a field of Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
Past Projects
| Afghanistan
Construction of the College of Agriculture at the University of Herat
Active 2011 to 2012
| Afghanistan
Afghan Agricultural Research and Extension Development Program (AGRED)
Active 2012 to 2014
| Afghanistan
Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project (AAEP II)
Active 2014 to 2017
| Global, Timor-Leste, Guatemala
Graduate Education at the Nexus of Global Horticulture and Human Nutrition to Enhance Community Resilience and Food Security
Active 2017 to 2022
| Bangladesh
Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition (LPIN)
Active 2015 to 2017
Asia and Eurasia Team
Leda Amrullah
Program Manager-YWL
Pal Brahmbhatt
Project Manager-WSE
Tracey Brinson
Chief of Party-WSE
Farishta Hellali
Chief of Party-YWL
Misbahuddin Rahimi
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist
Abhinab Shakya Pradhan
Program Aide - USAID Afghanistan Women's Scholarship Endowment
Elizabeth Tabares Villarreal
Program Coordinator, Asia and Eurasia; Research Specialist V