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11 June 2020
Study examines the relation between agriculture and the declining marmot population in Kazakhstan
A group of scientists, including IAMO Central Asia Group members, combined 1960s satellite data with modern satellite imagery to track marmot burros in Kazakhstan over more than 50 years. The steppe marmot (Marmota bobak), a keystone species in the...
10 June 2020
New study on impacts of climate change on wheat and barley yields
A new study of IAMO's Central Asia group members, published in the Journal of Arid Environments, reveals spatially varying impacts of climate change on wheat and barley yields in Kazakhstan from 1980 to 2015 using panel statistics and meteorological...
25 May 2020
Online Seminars on Applied Economics and Policy Analysis in Central Asia
IAMO researchers join the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in organization of an open online academic seminar series on the issues of applied economics and policy...
14 April 2020
IAMO Forum 2020 to be held online, 24 - 26 June 2020
IAMO Forum 2020 will take place as a virtual conference on the topic “Digital transformation – towards sustainable food value chains in Eurasia”.
The Central Asia Research Group will contribute with various contributed papers and organized sessions....
16 December 2019
GEWISOLA conference in Halle (Saale), 23 - 25 September 2020
The 60th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V. (Society for Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture) (GEWISOLA) will take place from 23 to 25 September 2020 in Halle (Saale). The event is...