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The Overview of Food Security in the Countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) provides a comprehensive review of the current status of food security in the region, highlighting the characteristics of food security...

Purpose of this note: The aim of this note is to provide a quick overview of how IFAD projects are designed to serve irrigated smallholder farming, and to raise awareness of the different assessments...

The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) was formed in 1997 to promote economic partnerships among countries in Central and West Asia and nearby East Asia...

Common Goal: Based on the results of the first phase of the project (2016-2019), the second phase is aimed at institutionalizing the WEP approach Nexus in national and regional governance structures, as...

Since 2000, the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has been promoting vegetable grafting technologies to manage soil-borne diseases (e.g., bacterial wilt) and abiotic stresses (e.g...

Agriculture in Central Asia is vulnerable to climate change due to rising aridity, declining availability of water resources for irrigation, and low adaptive capacity. We use climate...

Public expenditures matter a lot for agricultural growth, food and nutrition security, sustainable food systems, and other developmental outcomes. The level of agricultural public spending is important...

Droughts have deep, widespread and underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems, and economies. They incur costs that are borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable people. The extensive impacts...

Development of new wheat cultivars combining good local adaptation, disease resistance and grain quality represents an important strategy component for national food security. Uzbekistan...

Sustainable Management of Water Resources in rural areas in Uzbekistan The Programme is meant to focus on Water efficiency in agriculture. It aims at strengthening technical and institutional capacities for WM...