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12 January 2023
IAMO expanding cooperation with Uzbek universities
In January, IAMO director Thomas Glauben visited several Uzbek cooperation partners for bilateral meetings and exchange with students. The main aim of the visit was to intensify cooperation with cooperation partners and discussion of ongoing...
16 December 2022
IAMO and Uzbek state insurance company sign Memorandum of Understanding
02 November 2022 - The MoU between IAMO and the Uzbek insurance company Uzagrosugurta aims at an intensive transfer of research results and knowledge on index-based insurance for farmers.
On 28 October 2022, IAMO Director Thomas Glauben and the...
16 December 2022
Workshop on Cooperation towards Sustainable Agricultural Development
06 October 2022 - In the framework of the "Structured doctoral programme on Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia" (SUSADICA), IAMO researchers contributed to a workshop, which was held in the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and...
05 April 2022
Published: Special issue of 30 Years of Farm Restructuring and Water Management Reforms in Central Asia
The special issue edited by Richard Pomfret and Nodir Djanibekov was announced in February 2021 inviting contributions that cover the past thirty years of agricultural transformation in Central Asia and encouraged submissions from economists,...
02 March 2022
Food policy response measures to COVID-19 in Central Asia and Caucasus
IAMO researchers Nodir Djanibekov and Thomas Herzfeld look at the impacts of the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic on agriculture, food security, and rural communities in the countries of Central Asia and Caucasus, and provide options to strengthen the resilience of the agricultural sector during...
The progress of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 resulted in a contraction of the economies of countries in Central Asia and Caucasus which showed high rates of economic growth in previous years. After the first corona cases, many governments...
02 February 2022
Research explores farm size, specialization and production strategy amongst cattle farmers in south-eastern Kazakhstan
Within the research conducted in the ANICANET project, an international team of researchers, including an IAMO Central Asia Group member, explored the patterns of production in Kazakhstan’s traditionally nomadic livestock sector, focusing on the beef...
12 November 2021
MoU between IAMO and the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan
On November 11, IAMO Director Thomas Glauben and the Uzbek Minister of Agriculture Jamshid Khodjaev signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further intensify the cooperation between IAMO and the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan. The...
12 November 2021
Stakeholder Workshop on Innovative Index Insurance in Central Asia
On November 18, KlimALEZ team will organize an online dissemination workshop presenting project finding for stakeholder from business, politics and research. In addition to presentations for project members on novel data tools and applications, the...
23 April 2021
Call for Papers Special Issue "30 years of agricultural reforms in Central Asia"
For a Special Issue "30 years of agricultural reforms in Central Asia" in Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), we invite manuscripts from economists, sociologists and political scientists providing new understandings into the progress of agricultural reforms, farm restructuring, and...
Emerging from the Soviet centrally planned economy, each of five Central Asian countries opted for its own unique path of reorganizing its agricultural sector towards a desirable production and farm structure. The three decades of transformations and...
06 November 2020
TSUE Online Conference “Sustainable agricultural development and regional cooperation for inclusive growth in Central Asia” held on October 20-22, 2020.
October 20-22, the TSUE Conference 2020 featured an opportunity for representatives from science and politics to discuss “Sustainable agricultural development and regional cooperation for inclusive growth in Central Asia”. The event was organized...