{"id":8477,"date":"2019-11-21T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/?page_id=8477"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:23:27","slug":"konczeptualnaya-osnova-3-3","status":"publish","type":"iluma","link":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/iluma\/konczeptualnaya-osnova-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable pasture management for improving grassland ecosystems and livelihoods of pastoralists\u00a0in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. What is this land use practice about?<\/strong><br>The Republic of Tajikistan is the smallest landlocked country in Central Asia. Mountains cover more&nbsp;than 90 percent of the country. With a total area of pasture of 3.9 million hectares, alpine&nbsp;ecosystems thus constitute 80 percent of the country\u2019s agricultural land, which is used heavily for&nbsp;livestock husbandry. Most of the livestock is privately owned, awhile approximately 96 percent of&nbsp;products, including dairy, are produced by private farmers. Only a few farms use modern&nbsp;technology.<br>Due to land degradation and overgrazing, the area for pasture has decreased since independence.&nbsp;Yet, the livestock numbers have increased from 4.5 million head in 2005 to about 7.4 million head in&nbsp;2014. This increase of over 65 percent is the main driver of overgrazing.&nbsp;Pastures play a major role in economic development and in reducing poverty in rural Tajikistan.&nbsp;However, the degradation of pastures is posing an increasing threat to rural livelihoods. It is also&nbsp;threatening the important biodiversity of adjacent ecosystems, with restoration being nearly&nbsp;impossible and becoming more and more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Cornerstones of the Sustainable Pasture Management<\/strong><br>Many different projects and donor-funded initiatives are continuously contributing to the&nbsp;identification of solutions and supporting efforts to rehabilitate degraded pastures. At a 2013&nbsp;meeting of practitioners and experts working in the field of pasture management on the occasion of&nbsp;the approval of the first Tajik legislation on the issue \u2013 entitled, \u2018On Pasture\u2019 \u2013 it was noted that&nbsp;there is weak or inconsistent networking and coordination among pastoralist organisations and&nbsp;knowledge exchange among related stakeholders, as well as a lack of synergies in activities and weak&nbsp;legislative framework.<br>The approval of new legislation marked the starting point for GIZ\u2019s work on pasture management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important \u2018cornerstones\u2019 regarding the land use practice \u2018pasture management\u2019, are the<br>following:<br>\u2022 Pasture Governance<br>\u2022 Pasture Management Techniques<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4.-191208-Pasture-in-TJK-EN.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4.-191208-Pasture-in-TJK-EN.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iluma\/8477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iluma"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/iluma"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}