REAP project will bring together seven partner organizations from six countries for a four-day intensive meeting in Tashkent from 29 January to 1 February 2024. “The upcoming meeting is very important as it is the last major meeting of the partners before the end of the project. At this meeting it is planned to evaluate …
CAREC Annual Report for 2023 We are pleased to present to you the Annual Report of the Regional Environmental Cenre for Central Asia (CAREC) for 2023. In this report, you can get acquainted with the main results and achievements of CAREC during the past year. The purpose of the report is to highlight and evaluate …
Annual Report of the Regional Environmental Cenre for Central Asia (CAREC) for 2023. In this report, you can get acquainted with the main results and achievements of CAREC during the past year. The purpose of the report is to highlight and evaluate the progress of CAREC’s strategic goals on the following priorities: Generation of knowledge …
In order to improve the environmental situation, the President of Kazakhstan has set the task of carrying out forest reclamation work on the drained bottom of the Aral Sea (hereinafter referred to as ODAM) until 2025 on a total area of 1.1 million hectares, by creating saxaul plantations. To obtain maximum survival rate of saxaul, …
A million hectares of saxaul forest on the Kazakhstan side of the Aral Sea Read More »
Understanding Uzbek cleantech finance ecosystem for MSMEs in agri-food production and processing sector The Resource Efficiency in Agri-food Production and Processing (REAP) project will be implemented along two dimensions, direct industry support and stakeholder engagement. The primary activity of the project will be targeted towards direct support provided to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) …
Understanding Tajik cleantech finance ecosystem for MSMEs in agri-food production and processing sector The Resource Efficiency in Agri-food Production and Processing (REAP) project will be implemented along two dimensions, direct industry support and stakeholder engagement. The primary activity of the project will be targeted towards direct support provided to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) …
On October 25, 2023, a final seminar was held to provide the results of the 2nd National Forest Inventory of Kyrgyzstan, where representatives of state organizations for land resources, cartography and national statistics, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Ministry …
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Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience in North and Central Asia takes forward the analysis of the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021 and demonstrates how the subregion is being affected by various risk parameters, and where new hotspots of exposure and vulnerability to climate induced, cascading multi-hazard scenarios are being created. The report presents critical solutions …
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With the challenges of arid transboundary river water management among Central Asian countries, it is important to evaluate the water stress and propose practicable climate adaptation strategies. This study used the Syr Darya Basin (SDB) in a Central Asia data-scarce region as the study area and, conducted the first quantified analysis of the spatiotemporal characteristics …
This paper studies the effect of the 2018 drought on household consumption and poverty in Afghanistan, a semi-arid and conflict-affected country. The paper combines geolocated household data with remote-sensing weather data on precipitation, vegetation, and temperature. The findings show that drought-like conditions decreased monthly per capita consumption expenditures and hence increased poverty, with a highly …
