A female worker picks tomatoes at the Badam Bagh farm on the outskirts of Kabul. The farm teaches workers better methods of farrming and is funded by USAid, the US development agency, as part of its $2.6bn aid package to Afghanistan.

Women pick tomatoes at the Badam Bagh farm. USAid has adopted a new strategy to undermine the Taliban by spending up to $500m a year to help farmers, primarily in the heartland of the insurgency.

A worker shows off the tomato crop. USAid has pledged to increase rapidly the scope of schemes to provide irrigation, seeds and tools to villages torn between backing the Afghan government and the strengthening insurgency.

An Afghan woman who returned from a refugee camp in Pakistan lives in a makeshift shelter with her children on the outskirts of Kabul.

A woman and her seven children with the bag of wheat flour they have been given by USAid in Kabul.

Thousands of people in Afghanistan remain dependent on International Aid.

A family in a makeshift shelter in Kabul. About half of USAid's budget will be spent on programmes to promote better governance, with the rest divided between infrastructure, health, education and the expanded farm programme.

A boy sells chips and goat by gaslight on the side of the road in Kabul. USAid is funding the building of the largest power station in Kabul which when complete will provide more than 200,000 residents with electricity.

A man at work in the new Tarakhil power plant outside Kabul, funded by USAid.