Abstract
Evidence suggests that countries with mountainous terrain are more susceptible to food insecurity. It is estimated that about 40 % of the mountain population in developing countries (nearly 300 million people) is vulnerable to food insecurity, and nearly 90 % of this population lives in rural areas, almost half of which is likely to be chronically hungry.
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Reallocation of agricultural land from public sector (state and collective farms) to private dekhan farms is continuing in Tajikistan. The data from the Agency on Statistics under President of the Republic of Tajikistan suggests that the share of public sector in total arable land declined to 18.4 % in 2010 (Statistical Agency, Statistical Agency (under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan) 2012; Accessed July 15, 2012. http://stat.tj/en/analytical-tables/real-sector/).
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The anecdotal evidences suggest that the area sown with cotton has slightly increased in 2011 due to favorable conditions in international cotton markets.
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The average value of this indicator for 178 countries around the world is approximately 9 % (Ecker et al. 2010). Based on this measure, Tajikistan’s macro-level food security is significantly lower than the all of its Central Asian neighbors.
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This discussion mainly draws from Akramov and Shreedhar (2012).
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This data set is available at www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.asp.
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Data from the National Statistical Agency of Tajikistan suggest that the average population growth rate during the last decade has been about 2 % per year. According to UN population projections, Tajikistan’s population is expected to grow at an annual rate of 1.5 % throughout next two decades and may reach 9.5 million by 2030.
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Yield gaps are estimated by the differences between economically viable yield potential and average farmers’ yields in a given country over some specified temporal scale of interest.
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Akramov, K.T. (2013). Food Security Challenges and Agricultural Development in Tajikistan. In: Mann, S. (eds) The Future of Mountain Agriculture. Springer Geography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33584-6_9
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