Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia (Natural Resource Management and Policy, 28)

ISBN 10: 0387297774 / ISBN 13: 9780387297774

Published by Springer, 2006

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• Title: Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia (Natural Resource Management and Policy, 28)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387297774
• ISBN 13: 9780387297774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since independence, the countries of the Central Asian region have undergone a series of transition from centrally planned economies to a more market oriented system. Wide-ranging policy reforms have been implemented, although in varying degrees, in the five Central Asian countries. Despite great efforts by the countries and the external advice and efforts of international agencies to help them to follow a dynamic growth path, the progress in policy reforms has been frustratingly slow. Generating momentum to reorient the approach and the sequencing of policy reform packages will require rethinking of the policy reform process. This is particularly so in the food, agriculture, and natural resource sectors. This further requires improved understanding among the policymakers, donors, and international agencies of the impact of policy alternatives so that policy reforms and the speed with which they have been implemented are consistent with the objectives and the social and political realities of individual countries in the region. Involving the local policy research community in identifying critical issues and challenges, setting priorities among them for food and agricultural and natural resource policy research and analysis, and implementing joint research studies is the best way to generate knowledge on the impact of policy reforms and to increase ownership of policy design and implementation.

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