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About two-thirds of the land surface are drylands with low rainfall, extreme rainfall variability, severe heat and cold stress. Climate change effects above global average exacerbate these natural constraints. Despite the large growth potential in agriculture characterized by high diversity, productivity is low. Soils are often eroded and depleted of nutrients at a very large scale. This is owing to unsustainable practices prevailing in the past, centrally planned Soviet economy.
Improving agricultural productivity in Central Asia and Caucasus is an urgent task for the nations and calls upon the national and international research communities to act.
International agricultural research in the Region has been making contributions in terms of building the human and institutional research capacities, producing and out-scaling more productive and more resistant plant varieties, improving livestock, introducing better water irrigation management practices, developing more sustainable methods in agriculture that save water and need less fertilizers or pesticides. The researchers in Central Asia and Caucasus work together with farmers and policy makers for a better future, increasingly turning their attention to more integrated land and water management systems.
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Publications
Progress report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Progress report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Author(s): Aziz Nurbekov  Download |
Inception report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Inception report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Author(s): Aziz Nurbekov Download |
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Central Asia and the CaucasusCharacteristics and ARD priorities in the Region; Activities and achievements; New initiatives and partnerships; CGIAR Regional Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus; PerspectivesAuthor(s): Jozef Turok, Head, CGIAR Program Facilitation Unit Regional Coordinator, ICARDA |
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Program Steering Committee Meeting
| The 14th Steering Committee meeting of the CGIAR Regional Collaborative Research Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC Program) was held in Tashkent on 20-22 September 2011. |
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Opportunities
| Food Security Center offers up to 10 PhD scholarships in 2012 |
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| The Food Security Center (FSC) at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany awards up to 10 scholarships for PhD students for a period of 37 months. The application deadline is October 26, 2011. |
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| A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK OF SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS MEMBER STATES TO CENTRAL ASIAN STUDENTS |
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Events of This Month
| 2 – 3 February | Final Workshop on “Climate change adaptation in Central Asia and PRC” |
| 3 February | Training workshop for workers of reserves, forest enterprises, farmers on “The technology of growing and regeneration of local variety of fruit crops and their wild forms, documentation of traditional knowledge and agrobiodiversity assessment, marketing, fruit products and the fundamentals of economics in use of genetic plant resources of local varieties of fruit crops and their wild forms” |
| 6 February | Coordination Committee Meeting |
| 7 February | Training workshop for farmers, foresters and researches “Methodic of economic assessment of forests” |
| 8 February | Training workshop on “Forming and cutting of trees of local varieties of fruit crops” |
| 8-9 February | Training workshop for researchers and teachers of institutes of higher education, and certain farmers on documentation of plant genetic resources |
| 9 February | Training workshop on “Current state of nut-fruit forests and form diversity of walnut. Introduction and acclimatization of walnut in the North Kyrgyzstan” |
| 9 February | Training workshop on “Development of proposals for strengthening legislation on PGR conservation” |
| 14 February | Coordination Committee Meeting |
| 15 February | 7th National Steering Committee Meeting of UNEP/GEF |
| 20-25 February | Training workshop on storage and processing fruit crops |
| 22 February | Training workshop on cutting fruit tress |
| 27 - 29 February | Workshop on Exchange of International Nurseries in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Past Achievements and Future Prospects |
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BAUDOUIN AWARD
| CGIAR "King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" awarded to the Program for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) in December, 2008. | ||
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- Productivity of Agricultural Systems
- Natural Resource Conservation and Management
- Conservation and Evaluation of Genetic Resources
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