Kyrgyzstan
For many centuries, (semi-)nomadic pastoralists used pasture areas in the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains. Under Soviet rule, sedentarization began in the 1930s and collective farms replaced socioeconomic units based on kinship. Soviet land use was monofunctional and dependent on high levels of inputs such as chemical fertilisers, machinery, concentrated feed, and subsidies and was neither...
Kyrgyzstan, officially called the Kyrgyz Republic, is a small and highly mountainous former Soviet republic situated in northeast Central Asia. It is surrounded by the Pamir-Alay Mountains to the southwest and the Tien-Shan range to the northeast; the Tien-Shan ridge predominates. Ninety-four percent of the land area is located above 1,000 m; 40% is above 3000 m, with large...
Shepherds on horseback tend sheep on green mountain pastures: an idyllic image of Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous country in the heart of Asia, that hides the harsh reality of life after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The radical change from a planned economy to a free market economy caused an almost complete breakdown of Kyrgyzstan's industry and interrupted trade flows. Today, many families in...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, identified three key environmental issues facing the global community in the 21st century: climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. The follow-up World Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002 reviewed progress in addressing these closely interrelated issues and...
Snow Leopards, in a genus of their own, are endangered big cats. They inhabit rugged, mountainous terrain, in 12 range States - Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There are regional differences in prey, but the cats’ natural prey includes ungulates and rodents. The global population of...
The Central Asia communication needs assessment was undertaken in the frame of the Asia Pacific Mountain Network’s support to the Mountain Partnership Secretariat. It included telephonic and e-mail discussions with stakeholders from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, supplemented by online research.
Characteristic for the region is the transition to a more decentralized free market...
This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity. Specifically, the report presents the findings of research undertaken in 22 countries by independent country monitors on implementation of the Expanded Programme of Work on Forest Biological Diversity adopted under the Convention of Biological...
This issue of id21 insights focuses on children and poverty:
- Make childhood poverty history: About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020.
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id21 insights is a thematic overview of recent policy-relevant research findings on international development. Funded by the UK Department for International Development, it is distributed free to policymakers and practitioners worldwide. This issue of Insights includes the following articles:
- Are NTFPs a way out of...
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