Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development in Central Asia: An Overview of Issues and Challenges

      • Suresh Chandra Babu, Debdatta Sengupta

      Pages 3-24

   3. Economic Reform and Performance in Central Asia

      • Richard Pomfret

      Pages 25-57

3. Agriculture Development in Central Asia: Trends and Analysis of Policy Reforms

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Political Economy of Agrarian Reforms in Central Asia: Lessons from Policy Failures

      • Hooman Peimani

      Pages 61-70

   3. Policy Reforms in Central Asia: Problems and Perspectives

      • Sandjar Djalalov, Masahiko Gemma

      Pages 71-107

   4. A Comparative Analysis of Trends in Agricultural Productivity in Central Asian Transition Economies

      • Sandjar Djalalov

      Pages 109-129

   5. Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Central Asia: Progress and Challenges Ahead

      • Ramesh Deshpande

      Pages 131-170

   6. Globalization, Water and Changing Policies in the Aral Sea Basin

      • Bakhtiyor Mukhamadiev, Ulugbek Akhmedov

      Pages 171-180

   7. Agriculture Reform Policies in Uzbekistan

      • Max Spoor

      Pages 181-203

   8. Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development Challenges in Tajikstan

      • T. V. Sampath

      Pages 205-219

   9. Agrarian Reforms in Turkmenistan

      • Zvi Lerman, Ivan Stanchin

      Pages 221-236

4. Establishing the Sectoral Linkages in Policy Reforms

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   2. Impact of Policy Reforms on Farm Production in Uzbekistan

      • Sandjar Djalalov, Masahiko Gemma

      Pages 239-255

   3. Farmers’ Response to Land Privatization in Tajikistan

      • T. V. Sampath

      Pages 257-266

   4. Market Reform and Producer Responses in Central Asia

      • Sandjar Djalalov, Masahiko Gemma

      Pages 267-275

   5. Policy Reforms and Livestock Development in Central Asia

      • Mekhlis Suleimenov, Luis Iniguez, Madina Musayeva

      Pages 277-309

   6. Private Sector Development in Uzbekistan Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Sandjar Djalalov, Masahiko Gemma

      Pages 311-346

   7. Institutional Reforms and National Agricultural Research Systems in Central Asia

      • Suresh Chandra Babu, Alisher Tashmatov

      Pages 347-355

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.

• Farm production
• Russia
• agriculture
• centrally planned economy
• development
• economic growth
• growth
• macroeconomics
• political economy
• poverty
• production
• productivity
• sustainable development
• sweden
• transition

• International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC

  Suresh Chandra Babu

• Center for Efficient Economic Policy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  Sandjar Djalalov

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