Greening the agriculture sector of Uzbekistan: Costs of inaction, benefits of action, and returns on investment to combat degradation in land, water, and forest resources

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationTashkent State Agrarian Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationThe World Banken_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Sao Pauloen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Californiaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationMinistry Agriculture and Water Resources Uzbekistanen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climateen_US
cg.coverage.countryUzbekistanen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UZen_US
cg.coverage.regionCentral Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierYigezu, Yigezu: 0000-0002-9156-7082en_US
cg.creator.identifierAkramkhanov, Akmal: 0000-0002-4316-5580en_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No povertyen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible consumption and productionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen_US
dc.contributor.authorYigezu, Yigezuen_US
dc.contributor.authorNurbekov, Azizen_US
dc.contributor.authorAkramkhanov, Akmalen_US
dc.contributor.authorNazarkulov, Umidjanen_US
dc.contributor.authorGaniev, Akmaljonen_US
dc.contributor.authorVogl, Adrianen_US
dc.contributor.authorSarmiento, Jorgeen_US
dc.contributor.authorAgostini, Paolaen_US
dc.contributor.authorS. Golub, Elenaen_US
dc.contributor.authorM. Piabuo, Sergeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T14:50:15Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-29T14:50:15Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/172409en_US
dc.titleGreening the agriculture sector of Uzbekistan: Costs of inaction, benefits of action, and returns on investment to combat degradation in land, water, and forest resourcesen_US
dcterms.abstractThis report is based on a comprehensive study which analyzed the drawbacks of the current brown economic growth model that is followed in the agriculture, forest, and water sectors of Uzbekistan. The study also estimated the total economic costs of degradation in the three main forms of natural capital, namely crop & pasture lands, forests, and water in the country. While there exist some past studies which made attempts to estimate the total cost of land degradation in Uzbekistan, this study tried to make improvements on several fronts: 1) unlike past studies which were limited either thematically, geographically or in scale, this study considers and attempts to provide estimates of all degradation-induced losses of ecosystem service provisions and their associated economic losses covering the three main capitals and all three biomes (crops/pasture, forests, and water); 2) Methodologically, it makes improvements by first generating per unit-area estimates which were then aggregated to the level of each province, and finally to the national level using appropriate weights (mostly land area under each biome). Such estimates are important in informing provincial and national governments’ policy actions and priority setting; 3) It is based on a theoretically sound and consistent method that can be applied to all dimensions of losses which are induced by the degradation of all natural capitals; 4) The study used official statistics, published and unpublished research findings, and systematically solicited expert estimates on important variables to generate new estimates or make useful extrapolations for parameters necessary for some of the components of degradation-induced losses for which no provincial or national estimates existed; 5) Every effort was made to document all theoretical underpinnings, the procedures and models used, data sources, and simplifying assumptions made during estimation, that are expected to be useful in providing the reader the context under which these estimates are made. Acknowledging that some of the parameters and assumptions made could be contentious, the report aimed at providing conservative estimates of the total cost of degradation in natural capitals in the agriculture, forest, and water sectors of Uzbekistan.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.available2024-04-01en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationYigezu Yigezu, Aziz Nurbekov, Akmal Akramkhanov, Umidjan Nazarkulov, Akmaljon Ganiev, Adrian Vogl, Jorge Sarmiento, Paola Agostini, Elena S. Golub, Serge M. Piabuo. (1/4/2024). Greening the agriculture sector of Uzbekistan: Costs of inaction, benefits of action, and returns on investment to combat degradation in land, water, and forest resources.en_US
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dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.subjectlanden_US
dcterms.subjectwateren_US
dcterms.subjectreturn on investmenten_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural sectoren_US
dcterms.subjectforesten_US
dcterms.typeInternal Documenten_US

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