Natural Resource Management (NRM)

Natural Resource Management (NRM)

The objective of the Natural Resources Management (NRM) Programme is to ensure that Afghanistan’s natural resource base is rehabilitated and used in a productive and sustainable way by Afghanistan’s rural population. This requires establishing a supportive policy and regulatory framework at the national level, and by combining participatory planning methods with advanced technical opportunities in natural resource planning and management at the local level.

Sustainable economic growth, through enhanced agricultural productivity and production, must not be achieved at the cost of environmental and natural resource degradation. On the contrary, it is important not only to conserve but also to enhance the natural resource base to foster agriculture-led economic development, especially in rural areas. Thus the Ministry’s strategy for natural resource management will establish regimes of natural resource use (i.e. rangeland and other land use, water, forestry, wildlife and medicinal plants) in relation to: (i) systems for natural resource management; and (ii) systems of rights and access to natural resources.

The NRM programme comprises three coordinated and mutually complementing sub-programmes:

• Sub-Programme A: Natural Resource Surveillance, Planning and Regulation
• Sub-Programme B: Protection and Conservation
• Sub-Programme C: Community Management of Natural Resources