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- Almost half of migratory species are in decline and more than 20% are threatened, according to the State of the World’s Migratory Species report.
- ADB and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed an agreement to establish the Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund 2 (LEAP 2) with capital of up to $1.5 billion provided by JICA. The fund aims to cofinance high-quality, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific.
- Centrally located at the intersection of trade, economic, and transport corridors, Fergana Valley has the potential to drive economic development in Central Asia.
- Food prices at both domestic and global levels have a large influence on export restriction.
- ADB and Foreign Enterprise Indorama Agro LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Indorama Corporation (IRC) signed a $15 million loan to support the livelihoods of farmers in Uzbekistan, enhance their climate resilience, and support ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Excessive reliance on water resources and their inefficient use are the primary reasons for Central Asia’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, which are making water more scarce. Countries should prioritize increasing water efficiency across sectors.
- Building on best practices, this paper aims to provide direction for strengthening food safety systems in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation area to promote countries’ participation in regional and global food trade.
- ADB has approved a $500 million loan to help promote food security, provide social protection for vulnerable groups, and support employment in Uzbekistan amid the economic impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- ADB has approved a $150 million loan and a $3 million grant to help improve food and water security in Uzbekistan through better land and water resources management for improved agricultural productivity.
- The Asian Development Bank and Anglesey Food Foreign Enterprise LLC (Korzinka) have signed $12 million in debt financing to promote food security and sustain the livelihoods of more than 4,400 employees and 1,200 farm workers in Uzbekistan.
- This brief outlines the readiness of countries in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program to use electronic phytosanitary certificates (ePhyto) to support safer and expanded agricultural trade.
- CAREC's Common Agenda for Modernization of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures for Trade helps countries address transboundary risks to human, plant and animal health while facilitating trade and improving access to global agricultural value chains.
- The project aimed to improve agricultural land quality and productivity in Bukhara, Kashkadarya, and Navoi provinces, covering 162,300 hectares (ha) of land experiencing severe land degradation in Uzbekistan. Overall, the evaluation assessed the project successful. The project resulted in significant reductions in soil salinity that have continued to diminish since project completion. Shallow groundwater tables have been significantly reduced, indicating that another problem, waterlogging, has been addressed.
- This paper assesses how the collective pathway toward food security in Central and West Asia has transformed due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and recommends post-pandemic measures for ensuring long-term food security.
- This report takes a comprehensive look at agricultural and food systems in member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.
- This publication features projects promoting gender mainstreaming in the energy, transport, water supply and sanitation, and irrigation subsectors in Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
- This report presents nine case studies on poverty reduction projects financed by ADB in Mongolia, Nepal, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam.
- ADB has approved a $150 million loan to Uzbekistan to increase the access of livestock farmers and entrepreneurs to finance, markets, and veterinary and other animal health services, which will help increase their productivity...
- This publication assesses the plant health, animal health, and food safety measures of member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program.
- The project was designed to address the declining irrigation efficiency by rehabilitating and upgrading selected irrigation systems—pump stations and related inter-farm canals—in the Fergana Valley and Zarafshan River Basin in Uzbekistan, and through improved water management. The need for rehabilitation and upgrading stemmed from the lack of investment and inadequate maintenance. The project adopted a sector approach, taking a holistic view of the main issues affecting the irrigation sector, from intake to farm level.