Central Asia's Ili River is fed by mountain streams that flow down into an isolated and arid
basin that today is shared by Kazakhstan and China. Agriculture in the basin is dependent …

The five Central Asian countries became independent with the dissolution of the Soviet
Union on December 25, 1991, but remain little known outside the region. Initially, many …

(1) Background: In the context of differences among countries developing pre-
entrepreneurship ecosystems in relation to agritourism, the need to define the specific …

Since its independence, Kazakhstan has adopted a multi-vectorism approach to balance
between various great powers, especially between Russia and China. Despite extensive …

Since the Soviet breakup, rural communities in the Kazakhstan–China borderlands have
faced cataclysmic social, economic, and ecological transformations. Collective and state …

The reestablishment of agroforestry systems in Central Asia, combining crop production with
protective tree shelterbelts, provides significant potential to improve farming systems. This …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the crop cultivation structure in the Aral Sea Basin
has changed dramatically, and these changes are worth studying. However, historical crop …

This article explores the World Bank's project of 'returning agriculture to the market'through
land titling reforms. It describes how World Bank and national government strategy papers …

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, agricultural reforms in Central Asia often
translated into the fragmentation of large fields into smaller shares. Most remote-sensing …

In the context of the transition to sustainable agriculture in Kazakhstan, the article considers
one of its forms—organic farming. The adopted laws and by-laws not only have not …