Read the full topic… In order to ensure stable and guaranteed water supply for households, as well as for all sectors of the economy, large-scale efforts are underway in our country to develop irrigation system, improve water management infrastructure and quality of irrigated lands, as well as the efficient and rational use of land and …
BISHKEK – Eight rural schools in Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces have been able to start serving daily hot meals to some 4,000 primary school students, thanks to funding from Japan, technical support from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and local implementing partner, the Training and Extension System (TES) Centre. This expansion of the …
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Read the full content… The Government of Republic of Tajikistan has applied for financing in the amount of US$ 20.00 million equivalent from the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development of the Islamic Development Bank toward the cost of Improvement of Water Resources Management in Khatlon Region Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds …
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Full text here… Participants of the Kyrgyz National Climate Forum, held in Bishkek on December 17, 2019 on "Climate Change Issues for Kyrgyzstan: Post-Paris Actions and the Role of Civil Society," prepared an address to the Kyrgyz government. The Address includes a list of recommendations aimed at removing institutional barriers to sustainable development in Kyrgyzstan, …
Read full text … The development and adoption of targeted measures to reduce the negative effects of climate change in all sectors of the economy should be preceded by a clear definition of the legislative framework, public financial resources and responsible executors at all levels of government.
A joint UNEP-EEA study of environmental issues in the countries of South-East Europe (SEE), Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) — now also available in Russian — shows that the region is facing many challenges in the wake of economic growth. The report identifies several opportunities to 'leapfrog' and avoid some of the …
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Government ministers and delegates from 53 countries agreed to extend the European network for sharing environmental information across the pan-European region. The commitment was made at the seventh Ministerial Environment for Europe summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, which concluded today. https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/environmental-information-network-extends-across
http://www.cacilm.org/en/articles/detail/618%22 Land degradation in Central Asian countries is a serious threat, particularly considering the sizeable share of agriculture in these countries’ GDP. Causes of land degradation are not only in irrational use of water resources, but also in the legacy of the pre-independence (pre-1991) system of land management when maintenance of soil health was considered …
Deep plowing of soil for sowing legumes and cereal crops has traditionally been used in rainfed areas of Kamashi district, Kashqadarya Region of Uzbekistan. In the fall of 2014, Knowledge Management in CACILM II project set up a demonstration plot on 3 hectares of Abror Shoymurodov’s farm in a rainfed land in Navruz village to …
Efforts to combat land degradation in five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have received a new impetus with the establishment of a platform to consolidate knowledge and promote sustainable land management approaches and technologies that have been devised by researchers as well as farmers. Among these practices are zero and …
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