Представленное вашему вниманию издание подготовлено в ходе проекта «Укрепление потенциала по производству и анализу гендерной статистики в рамках разработанного ФАО подхода к сельскохозяйственной статистике», выполненного в рамках Программы Партнерства между ФАО и Турцией. Проект был реализован в период с 2013-го по 31 мая 2016 года и предназначен для национальных статистических...

ФАО поддерживает партнерские отношения с Кыргызстаном со времени его вступления в Организацию в 1993 г. Впервые отделение ФАО в стране было открыто в 2009 г. В 2012 г. его расширили, а в 2014 г. был назначен Представитель ФАО в Кыргызской Республике. Это назначение ознаменовало переход от мероприятий чрезвычайного характера к...

Forests and grasslands absorb greenhouse gases and therefore play a critical role in solving the problems associated with climate change. Taking this into account, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with financial support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), as well as national partners, is implementing...

This brief examines some of the key legal considerations related to school gardens, and also explores regulatory options for strengthening the legislative environment for sustainable school food and nutrition in the country. This brief is rooted in a holistic approach to school food and nutrition and the analysis provided in...

Following the Kyrgyz tradition, Manzura Orolbaeva welcomes guests with homemade bread and a saucer of melted butter. The bread is made from grain grown on their farm and the butter from the livestock they keep. Agriculture is the main source of income and food for a large part of the local...

This report aims to highlight the current strengths of the institutional DRR system for agriculture in Kyrgyzstan as well as indicate existing gaps and capacity needs to further enhance it. A comprehensive assessment is conducted, which includes a general overview of the country’s agricultural sector and outlines the most frequent...

Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri...

While food security is a renewed source of concern at the global level, the greening of agrifood systems remains a top priority to limit its impacts on climate change and natural resources. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO released two new reports that explore climate-smart technical solutions...

Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri...

Traditional mountain landscapes governed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) conserve unique wildlife and agrobiodiversity, and strongly support climate change adaptation and mitigation by protecting ecosystem services, including grasslands that store almost 50% more carbon than forests. But mountain biodiversity and the Indigenous and traditional peoples that sustain it are...

Turdumatova Zhazgul is a proud member of the Ishker KG cooperative, an initiative co-founded by eight remarkable women, herself included. Thanks to her involvement with the cooperative, she had the invaluable opportunity to partake in specialized training programs, knowledge that she expertly applied to enhance her agricultural endeavors. The newfound...

Social protection has a critical role to play in reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and stimulating inclusive economic growth in rural areas. However, social protection alone cannot address all the risks and challenges faced by vulnerable rural populations. Integrated interventions have shown greater impacts than stand-alone social protection...

Social protection has a critical role to play in reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and stimulating inclusive economic growth in rural areas. However, social protection alone cannot address all the risks and challenges faced by vulnerable rural populations. Integrated interventions have shown greater impacts than stand-alone social protection...

In Kyrgyzstan, where most of the population lives in rural areas, small-scale agriculture and animal husbandry is the main source of food and income. To this end, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Regional Development, and the...

Unsafe food is a major threat to human health and economies globally. A new project has been kicked off to strengthen official food safety control and risk communication systems in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Implemented under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture, funded by Turkey,...

Like many other economies in transition, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan face the dual challenge of promoting development and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and ruminant systems are central for achieving both goals. Given the important economic, nutritional and environmental roles that ruminant systems play in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,...

The background for conducting country studies on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in seven countries has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative and develop the initiative towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and country levels. To provide support to...

Meet Alymov, a rural service provider from Kyrgyzstan, for #IGrowYourFood. 🇰🇬 Hear what he has to say about why worms play an important role in organic farming.

Dinara Eshimbetova is a wife and mother of five who lives in the south of the Kyrgyz Republic. Her eldest son has just turned 20, while her youngest child is only 3 years old. The job market is very limited in rural Kyrgyzstan, so both Dinara and her husband work as...

Samira lives in a very remote village in Kyrgyzstan with her husband and four children. They grow vegetables in a small greenhouse to feed the family. In addition, Samira works at the bakery with 10 other women – they bake bread for the local school. This might sound like “a...