Table of Contents

Email Memos on Helmand Counter-Narcotics: 2003-Present

Opium Poppies in Helmand this year? 15 Sept 2003

Helmand Follow Up 24 Sept 2003 Need for a clear policy statement

Helmand Follow Up II 13 Oct 2003 A Farmer Cotton Committee

Helmand Follow Up III 20 Oct 2003 Time is Running Out

Helmand Follow Up IV 29 Oct 2003 Helmand Farmers are Dissatisfied

Helmand Follow Up V 11 Nov 2003 Opium Poppy Cultivation Must Not be Allowed to Return

Helmand Follow Up VI 2 Dec 2003 The Winter Crop Planting Season Is Well Underway

Helmand Follow Up VII 18 Dec 2003 I will try to be polite.

Helmand Follow Up VIII 19 Jan 2004 The 2004 Poppy Crop is Planted

Helmand Follow Up IX 6 July 2004 Cotton

Helmand Follow Up X 27 July 2004 A Call for Action

Helmand Follow Up XI 20 Aug 2004 Opium Poppies in Helmand this Year? US Military Intervention in Central Helmand? Hopefully Not.

Helmand Follow Up XII 31 Aug 2004 Cotton...Again

Helmand Follow Up XIII 21 Sept 2004 Opium Poppies in Helmand this Year?

Helmand Follow Up XIV 29 Aug 2005 A Time for action again NOW

Helmand Follow Up XV 14 Dec 2005 Poppy and Cotton Policies?

Helmand Follow Up XVI 1 March 2006 Poppies and Cotton Again and Again or The Mistake of a Military Intervention

Helmand Follow Up XVII 9 May 2006 Poppies, Cash-for-Work and Cotton Again

Helmand Follow Up XVIII 16 Aug 2006 Opium Poppy In Helmand Again this Year?

Helmand Follow Up XIX 18 Oct 2006 Poppies in Central Helmand Again this Year.

Helmand Follow Up XX 20 Dec 2006 The Way Backward

Helmand Follow Up XXI 20 March 2007 Eradication and Cotton Again

Helmand Follow Up XXII 23 July 2007 A Proposal for Action...Now

Helmand Follow Up XXIII 27 Sept 2007 Comments on U,S Counter- narcotics Strategy for Afghanistan And Another Call for Positive Action (with photo)

Helmand Follow Up XXIV 12 Dec 2007 Timing is Everything

How to Lose Friends and Make Enemies 11 Feb 2008

Helmand Follow Up XXV 18 June 2008 Need for an Integrated Reconstruction/opium Poppy Reduction Program in Central Helmand

Helmand Follow Up XXVI 23 Aug 2008 Any Effective Action Planned for Opium Poppy Planting Season This Year?

Helmand Follow Up XXVII 1 Feb 2009 A Proposal for the Annual Winter Maintenance Period for Central Helmand Irrigation System

Helmand Follow Up XXVIII 1 Aug 2009 Time AGAIN to Begin Planning for an Effective Counter-Narcotics Program for the Fall Planting Season

Helmand Follow Up XXIX 22 Jan 2010 Opium Poppy Planting Season Again: Were We Ready?

Helmand Follow Up XXX 18 April 2010 More Mixed-signals for Central Helmand Farmers

Conference Papers on Helmand, 2002-08

Opium Poppy Cultivation in Central Helmand, Afghanistan: A Case Study in Bad ad Program Management, The Society for Applied Anthropology, 67th Annual Meeting, March 2007, 18 pp. (Part 1)   (Part 2)

Reconstruction and Opium Poppy Cultivation in Central Helmand: The Need for an Integrated Program, Conference on Afghanistan Reconstruction: The Future, University of Nebraska at Omaha, October 2008, 18 pp.

From New Deal to New Frontier in Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State, Nick Cullather, Working Paper #6, August 2002, The Cold War as Global Conflict, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, 34pp.

Theses and Dissertations on Helmand, 1975:

The Water Supply Constraint: An Evaluation of Irrigation Projects and Their Role in the Development of Afghanistan, Lloyd I.Z. Baron, PhD dissertation, McGill University, 1975, 277 pp. (US Helmand vs. Soviet Nangahar) (Part 1)   (Part 2)

Socio-Economic Aspects of Land Settlement in Helmand Valley, Afghanistan, Ghulam Farouq, MS thesis, American University of Beirut, 1975, Readable to p. 103.

Final Project Reports on Helmand, 1998-2005:

Helmand Irrigation Rehabilitation Project, 1 Dec 98 - 31 March 99, MCI/INL, 98 pp. (w/photos)

Cotton & Alternative Crops Pilot Project, 7 April - 20 May 02, @ CADG/USAID, 25pp. (edited)

Helmand Drainage Rehabilitation Project, 11 Oct 02 - 30 Jan 03, DAI/USAID, 44 pp.

Trip report and Outline of a Strategy Paper for Central Helmand Irrigation Systems, Afghanistan, 13 Feb 04 - 8 March 04, RAMP/USAID, 13 pp.

End of Assignment Report, Helmand Alternative Income Project, 19 Nov 04 - 31 Jan 05, RAMP/USAID, 16 pp.

HAFO Narrative Report on Drain Cleaning in Nad-i-Ali and Marja Districts, HAFO/DAI, April 03, 7pp.

Lashkar Gah: The Beginning:

Report on the Site Selection for the Permanent Administrative Center of the HELMANDVALLEY AUTHORITY, Frank E. Patterson, USTCA, 1953, 23pp, w/maps.

Lashkar Gah Survey: A Demographic and Economic Analysis, Murad A. Asiel, Faculty of Economics, Kabul University, 1349/1970, 78 pp.

Helmand Valley Farm Economic Surveys, 1965-2000:

Economics of Agriculture Production in Helmand Valley, Afghanistan, I.M. Stevens, J.K. Tarzi, US Bureau of Reclamation, 1965.

1970 Farm Economic Survey: Helmand and Arghandab Valleys of Afghanistan, G.P. Owens, USAID/Kabul, 15 Dec 71.

1975 Farm Economic Survey of the Helmand Valley, F. Shairzai, G. Farouq, R. Scott, USAID/Kabul, 1978.

Helmand Initiative Socio-Economic Survey, AKBAR Survey Unit, UNDP and Helmand Planning Group, April 2000.

The Soviets and After, 1980-2005:

Tribal & Ethnic Groups in the Helmand Valley, R.B. Scott, Asia Society, Spring ,1980, 36pp, w/maps.

Planning for Reconstruction of Helmand-Arghandab Valley Irrigation Systems in Afghanistan, 1988, R.B. Scott memo to USAID, 10 pp.

United Nations Plan of Operation for Helmand Province in 1991-92, Phase II, UNDP, 1991, 20 pp.

1995 COMPARATIVE SURVEY: HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN, Afghanistan Drug Control and Rehabilitation Programme, AFG/89/580, 1995, 107 pp.

R.B. Scott letter to Counselor for Narcotics Affairs on Helmand, Islamabad, Trip Report, 10 Feb. 98, 71 pp. with 110 photos. (Part 1)   (Part 2)

R.B. Scott email memo to USAID, Helmand Cotton and Other Cash Crops, 24 Dec.01, 6pp.

(Helmand) Cotton Project Concept Paper, Central Asia Development Group (CADG), February 2002, 3pp.

Helmand Initiative: Joint Strategy Development Second Draft, Helmand Planning Group, UNDP/Islamabad, 2000, 56pp.

Shamalan Land Development Project 1967 - 73

Helmand Arghandab Valley Development Project Afghanistan, Shamalan Unit, Draft Feasibility Report, Sept. 1967, Bureau of Reclamation, Bost, Afghanistan, 152 pp. (Part 1)   (Part 2)

Program Schedule Shamalon Unit (31,399 Acres), Charles G. Burress, J.G.White Engineering Corp. Dec. 1967, 12 pp.

The North Shamalan: A Survey of Land and People, R.B.Scott, USAID/Kabul, August 1971, 51 pp. w/maps.

Khalaj Market (Nawa/Shamalan), Paper No. 1, R. B. Scott, USAID/Kabul, July 1972, 9 pp. w/maps.

Shamalan Flour Mills, R.B. Scott, USAID/Afghanistan, 1972, 29pp. w/map.

Sector Analysis: Helmand-Arghandab Valley Region, Lloyd Baron and David Levintow, USAID/Afghanistan, 1973, 136 pp.

Helmand Drainage Project 1974-79

The Socio-Economic Characteristics of On-farm Drains Hand-laborers: Some Implications for Farm Drain Construction, R.B.Scott, USAID, Nad-i-Ali 1976, 18pp.

A Letter Report: Helmand Valley Drainage Work, Gene C. Vittetoe, Soil Conservation Service, September 1975, 45pp.

Central Helmand Drainage Project Observations and Recommendations, James E. Stephenson, USAID/Kabul, 8pp.

Evaluations and Analyses

Report on Development of Helmand Valley Afghanistan ICA/Tudor Engineering Co., 1956, 212pp, w/photos.

Helmand-Arghandab Valley: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Mildred Caudill, USAID/Lashkar Gah, 1969, 70pp.

USAID-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE HELMAND-ARGHANDAB VALLEY, Notes on Program Successes and Problems, USAID/Afghanistan, Kabul, 1973, 16pp, w/photos.

Helmand Valley Crop and Insect Survey, Jerry Rann, Entomologist, USAID/Kabul, July 1973, 10 pp.

Helmand River Basin Soil and Water Survey Study Report, GOA/USAID, 1976, 129 pp.

Existing Infrastructure (Helmand Valley Project), likely USAID/Kabul, ca.1978, 3pp.

The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan, AID Evaluation Special Study No. 18, by Cynthia Clapp-Wincek and Emily Baldwin, USAID/W, Dec. 1983, @ 9pp.

Helmand-Arghandab Valley Irrigation System: A Change Assessment 1973-1990, DAI/ESC/USAID, 1993, 53pp. w/satellite imagery.

Area Development Projects: Evaluative Criteria (The Helmand Arghandab Valleys), James J. Dalton, USAID, April 1981, 23pp.

Rehabilitation of the Helmand Valley Irrigation and Drainage System, Malik Mortaza and Hashim Rayek, Society of Afghan Engineers/Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority, Kabul 2002, 9pp.

Initial Survey of the Middle Helmand Irrigated Agriculture Production Systems, Johannes Oosterkamp, USAID-RAMP, December 2003, 29pp.

Rehabilitation Needs Assessment for the Middle Helmand Irrigated Agriculture System, DAI/USAID, April 04, 63pp.

Opium in Afghanistan: People and Poppies, The Good Evil, A Discussion Paper on Issues and Options, Frank Kenefick and Larry Morgan, Chemonics International, February 2004, 21pp.