Anthony Fitzherbert
 Anthony Fitzherbert     (academic, farmer) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | January 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Institute for Statecraft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Interests | Afghanistan | ||||||||||||||||||
Institute for Statecraft member and former FAO Programme manager in Afghanistan who co-authored research on crop yields
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Anthony Ralph Fitzherbert OBE is an "agricultural expert" who worked for the FAO and wrote about the poppy harvest of Afghanistan.[3]
He has unique knowledge of working, traveling and living in all parts of the country through many years of warfare and tension. He has penetrated Afghan life at a level that few outsiders have ever reached- particularly focusing on rural development, on natural resource management and on all matters of agriculture and husbandry, including the vexed question of poppy production.[4]
Anthony Fitzherbert is/was a member of the Institute for Statecraft.
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Activities
Anthony Fitzherbert co-authored the FAO's National crop output assessment May/June 2003
Opinions
He was cited in 2019 as a "British agricultural expert" referring to the cash-for-poppies program as “an appalling piece of complete raw naivete,” saying that the people in charge had “no knowledge of nuances and [I] don’t know they really cared.”[5]
Awards
He was given the OBE in 2010 for his work in Afghanistan.[6]
