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My childhood in Afghanistan\u2014and my master\u2019s studies at Cornell\u2014have taught me that education is a form of resistance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChime In\u201d comprises brief first-person essays by Cornellians. Do you have a topic in mind? Email us at cornellians@cornell.edu<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Hamidullah Nikzad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Growing up in Afghanistan, I felt early that climate change was not a distant scientific debate, but a force that decided whether my family ate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my earliest memories is from when I was six or seven years old, during a prolonged drought that gripped much of the country in 1999\u20132001. Our district, cut off by Taliban-imposed restrictions, became increasingly isolated from food supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember my father leaving for a weeklong walk out of the province, returning with barley strapped to his back and another loaded on a donkey. <\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Hamidullah<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He took it to a water-powered stone mill at the province\u2019s border, ground it into flour, and handed it to my mother, who baked bread for us over a wood fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That bread was more than food; it was survival, born from determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That memory stayed with me, shaping the way I see the relationship between environment, conflict, and resilience. It taught me that climate isn\u2019t just weather; it is survival, dignity, and the possibility of a future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate isn\u2019t just weather; it is survival, dignity, and the possibility of a future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As a teenager, I took my first step toward shaping that future when I began teaching at a girls\u2019 school in a neighboring village. In our deeply traditional community, boys and girls studied in separate schools, often miles apart, and the absence of teachers for girls was common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was still in school myself, but I took on the role with a sense of urgency. My classroom lacked a building, desks, textbooks, and steady heat during cool seasons, so you can imagine what we had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the students\u2014bright-eyed, determined\u2014showed me that education was more than lessons. It was a form of resistance to the circumstances that tried to limit them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hamidullah
Doing fieldwork for an applied ecology course in the Cornell Botanic Gardens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Those three years were my first \u201cinternal revolution,\u201d as I came to see it: the moment I understood that service to my community would define my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attending university gave me another opportunity to act. I studied agricultural extension and economics, a field partly inspired by my childhood work. My senior thesis focused on the production of almonds, the first major orchard crop in my home province of Daikundi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found that 83% of household livelihoods depended on it. That research cemented my belief that food systems, climate, and community wellbeing are inseparable.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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After graduating in 2014, I joined Afghanistan\u2019s National Environmental Protection Agency as a planning officer. Over three years, I rose to become the director of environmental protection in Daikundi, where I worked with local authorities and communities to protect natural resources\u2014with almost no resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I experienced a truth that has guided me ever since: every obstacle holds a lesson, and every opportunity carries its own challenges. No barrier is entirely negative, and no opening is entirely free of difficulty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I experienced a truth that has guided me ever since: every obstacle holds a lesson, and every opportunity carries its own challenges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Daikundi, this mindset enabled my team and me to achieve tangible results of environmental stewardship and public awareness, including designating two national protected areas\u2014one later recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a snow leopard habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned then that leadership is not always about having resources; it is often about building trust, raising awareness, and seeing possibilities where others see barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, to mark Earth Day in 2019, we organized a student drawing competition on themes of the planet. I watched young girls sketch the Earth and explain the ideas it sparked in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hamidullah
Overseeing an Earth Day art competition in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Their confidence took me back to my own childhood, when\u2014without a school building\u2014we studied under the shade of almond trees. I felt proud of how much the new generation had transformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, that promise was forcibly silenced, and many of those girls were denied even the right to sit beneath those almond trees and learn. In 2021, the return of the Taliban ended not just my official work but the fragile progress we had made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2021, the return of the Taliban ended not just my official work but the fragile progress we had made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For a time, it felt as though the doors to my life\u2019s work had closed. But I drew strength from two sources: the memory of my father\u2019s long walk for barley, and the unwavering support of my wife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate in anesthesiology from Kabul Medical University, she has been my strongest advocate since the day we married, encouraging me to keep moving forward when fear and uncertainty could have stopped me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hamidullah
Doing fieldwork in a garden in Herat, Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That persistence led me to Cornell, where my master\u2019s thesis in natural resources examines how seasonal rainfall anomalies and political violence interact to shape acute food insecurity in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Civic Ecology Lab<\/a>, I have found a community of scholars and practitioners who believe, as I do, that resilience must be built at the intersection of science and lived experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have found a community of scholars and practitioners who believe, as I do, that resilience must be built at the intersection of science and lived experience. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The lab\u2019s collaborative projects, global perspective, and mentorship have not only sharpened my research skills, but expanded my vision for how environmental stewardship and food security can be advanced in fragile contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I look back, I see a path shaped by the same question that drove my father years ago: how do we keep our families fed when everything seems stacked against us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hamidullah
With his wife in a Kabul park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The answer, I\u2019ve learned, lies in small acts of resilience that ripple outward: teaching a class, protecting a watershed, mentoring a colleague, sharing research that might inform better policy. Each step is a thread in a much larger fabric, woven by people who refuse to give up on their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the work I intend to carry forward: connecting the science of resilience to the lived realities of those who need it most\u2014so that the next time the rain doesn\u2019t come, survival will not depend on how far someone can walk for a bag of barley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On track to graduate with a master\u2019s in 2025, Hamidullah Nikzad<\/strong> currently works as the admin for global online courses in the Civic Ecology Lab. He holds an undergraduate degree from Afghanistan\u2019s Herat University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(All images provided.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published August 29, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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