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Fragility has become a prevailing reality in an increasing number of countries in various areas, including Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). The concept of fragility encompasses...

Agroforestry and food production: Establishment of “green belt” of 15,000 hectares protective forest in the Aral Sea region (estimate). Planting of agroforestry crops such as rosehip...

Highlights Declining water quantity and quality are leading to increasing soil salinity and threatening sustainability of salt-affected irrigated drylands Experiments, simulation, and multi-criteria trade-off...

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 well...

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...