Climate change, land degradation and drought affect millions of people living in drylands
worldwide. With its food security depending almost entirely on irrigated agriculture, Central …

Abstract Agricultural Extension Services (AES) have the potential to increase agricultural
productivity and sustainability. Although an extensive body of literature investigates into the …

The combination of hydrological research findings from field to regional level in the irrigated
croplands of Khorezm, Uzbekistan, revealed that water availability at farm and field level …

Inefficient irrigation and the excessive use of water on agricultural land in the Aral Sea Basin
over several decades have led to saline soils. The main objective of this paper is to identify …

Land degradation due to water logging and its influence on secondary soil salinization
processes pose a major threat to the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the semi-arid …

This paper examines how rural transformation in Uzbekistan alters gender norms and roles
and, consequently, affects women's involvement in agriculture. We focus on the role that …

Mismanagement of irrigation water and the ensuing secondary salinization are threatening
the sustainability of irrigated agriculture especially in many dryland regions. The permanent …

Soil salinization is the widespread problem seriously affecting the agricultural sustainability
and causing income losses in arid regions. The major objective of the study was to quantify …

Currently there is a lack of quantitative information regarding the driving factors of vegetation
dynamics in post-Soviet Central Asia. Insufficient knowledge also exists concerning …

Few efficiency studies, to date, have been conducted for Central Asian countries. This article
fills the gap in the literature by conducting a frontier efficiency analysis using survey data …