"In 2011, USAID awarded $70 million to IRD to run the Southern Regional Agricultural Development program in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. The program was supposed to “increase agricultural employment and income” and reduce instability in a region where the Taliban is active. Through the program, IRD provided farm machinery, supplies and training to Afghan farmers and businesses, with the help of U.S. officials and the military.
But according to the new SIGAR report, the nonprofit began buying items that were too expensive, unauthorized and unneeded, as well as items that officials warned would be too risky to purchase because of the danger of theft."
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