This paper provides information on the current status of the agricultural extension systems in Central Asia (CA), with special reference to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The report reviews the existing extension strategies, donor- and state-driven initiatives to revitalize the...
Central Asia is a region of exceptional strategic importance: it is a major energy exporter, it has the potential to become a key Eurasian transport hub and may well be an important contributor to the long-term stabilization of Afghanistan. Improved regional cooperation among Central Asian...
This article is a critical assessment of the neo-malthusian claim that climatic changes can be an important source of international tensions, in the extreme even militarized interstate disputes. The most likely scenario is conflict over water allocation in international catchments shared by...
BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE ORIENT - A FOCUS ON RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN/ON CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS
It was not only in Central Europe that the geopolitical map was redrawn after the breakup of the Soviet Union; also at the southern borders of the Russian...
These reports were prepared by a group of national experts within the framework of the projects of EU "Harmonization and approximation of standards and quality of water in Central Asia" and UNECE "Water quality in Central Asia". Discussions of the problems of modern quality management of surface...
This report evaluates how well EECCA countries have done in ensuring people’s access to adequate water supply and sanitation services since their Economic, Finance, and Environment Ministers adopted the Almaty Guiding Principles to support such efforts in 2000. Besides looking at trends in the...
This Background paper for the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference presents initial evidence for how a nexus approach can enhance water, energy and food security in a green economy by increasing efficiency, reducing trade-offs, and building synergies across sectors. It also underpins the policy...
Recent extreme weather events including floods, heat waves, and droughts present a vivid image of the direction the world is heading. As climate change intensifies, more events like these, combined with longer-term changes in the climate’s average state -including rising seas, melting glaciers,...
In August this year, First International Complex Expedition in the upper river Vakhsh and Panj was organized with support of UNDP. The expedition, which included experts from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, explored glaciers of Tajikistan and came to conclusion that the ...
The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility. These issues manifest in very different ways in each of the three “spheres”, but often the impacts are closely related. Identifying...
