Private Sector Food Relief Initiative for Afghanistan

 

Participants: Food Production Companies

 

For producers of non-perishable food products sold in supermarkets, where products are compatible with dietary customs in Afghanistan (to be listed elsewhere on this site), and where product packaging may also survive or be adapted to drop shipping by parachute. Packing specifications will also be posted on this site.

 

Food Producer Registration Forms :

 

Department of Defense

 

This section aims to establish communication links between American food production companies that want to participate in the relief effort, with the information they will need to participate effectively and efficiently, and with follow-on contacts they will also need.

 

Department Of Defense Contact Registration Forms:

 

Afghan Knowledge Expert Pool

 

This section has both immediate and follow-on objectives:

 

·        ASAP, its purpose is to post dietary guidelines which should be considered by food producers who may want to participate, but who first want to determine whether or not what they might offer is appropriate to circumstances in Afghanistan;

 

·        Also ASAP, to establish communication links between food producers who will want their product information translated and American citizens having Afghan roots who might serve as translators;

 

·        A follow-on objective is to recruit knowledge experts to participate in an on-going public information process called Counterpoint Corner. It will be based on a state-of-the-art forum and survey system (Patent Pending) designed to expand general awareness of expert knowledge and to foster more nuanced understanding of complex issues by citizen/voters. Additional information about this follow-on initiative will be posted during early November, 2001

 

Afghan Knowledge Expert Forms:

·        Dietary Advisors

·        Translators

·        Authors & Pundits