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IAMO Policy Brief 48 summarizes findings from a recent IAMO-ICARDA study and shows why combining practices may deliver stronger results than promoting single technologies in isolation.
Uzbekistan is seeking to modernize its agricultural sector under growing pressure on land and water resources. IAMO Policy Brief 48, based on a joint study of Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Discussion Paper No. 203), highlights that sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) should be promoted as portfolios of combined measures rather than as isolated interventions. The brief is based on a focused study and draws on the UzFarmBarometer survey of 1,225 commercial farm managers in four regions of Uzbekistan.
The study examined four SAPs: crop rotation, manure application, drip irrigation and laser land levelling. Crop rotation is the most widespread practice, used by roughly half of farms, while most other technologies remain below 20% adoption rate. Among the four practices, drip irrigation stands out as the one most consistently associated with higher revenue per hectare and improved agri-sustainability outcome. Adoption patterns across the four SAPs are consistently associated with perceived benefits and challenges of these practices, as well as with access to training and extension support. The findings also show that bundled combinations of practices, particularly those centered on drip irrigation technologies, can yield greater farm incomes, environmental benefits and more equitable labor outcomes than standalone practices.
Based on these findings, the policy brief recommends promoting SAP bundles rather than single technologies, using drip irrigation as a backbone technology, refining where and how laser land levelling is promoted, and making the profitability of adoption more transparent and testable for farmers. It also calls for stronger farmer-to-farmer learning, practice-specific training and advisory services, better local data for targeting support, and more explicit attention to environmental and gender objectives in agricultural policy design.
IAMO Policy Brief 48 “Bundled sustainable agricultural practices as a pathway to economically, environmentally and socially inclusive development in Uzbekistan” was published in English and Uzbek. The issues can be downloaded free of charge on the following website: https://www.iamo.de/en/iamo-policy-briefs
About IAMO
The Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) analyses economic, social and political processes of change in the agricultural and food sector, and in rural areas. The geographic focus covers the enlarging EU, transition regions of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as well as Central and Eastern Asia. IAMO works to enhance the understanding of institutional, structural and technological changes. Moreover, IAMO studies the resulting impacts on the agricultural and food sector as well as the living conditions of rural populations. The outcomes of our work are used to derive and analyse strategies and options for enterprises, agricultural markets and politics. Since its founding in 1994, IAMO has been part of the Leibniz Association, a German community of independent research institutes.
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Laser land leveler in Uzbekistan
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