Anthony Fitzherbert

Anthony Fitzherbert   (academic, farmer)
Born	January 1939
Residence	Cumbria,  England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Reading University
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.  FAO/Consultant Dates unknown Employer FAO As of June 2003  FAO/Programme manager Dates unknown Prior to 2003

Anthony Ralph Fitzherbert OBE is a British agricultural expert who worked for the FAO in Asia. After the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, he was a special adviser to the FAO in that country. He has written reports for them about the crop yields there.

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.

Anthony Fitzherbert is/was a member of the Institute for Statecraft.

Background

Anthony Fitzherbert got an MSc from Reading University.

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.”

Awards

He was given the OBE in 2010 for his work in Afghanistan.

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