Land degradation is one of the main problems of Urzhar district, Eaten Kazakhstan area. Unsystematic cattle breading and excessive increase of pressure on pastures around the settlements has led to degradation of more than 40% of the grass-land pastures. At the same time a tendency for the cattle livestock growth is observed. Many years ago nomadic cattle breading was used as s primordially traditional method. It allowed land owners to prevent degradation of the natural fodder lands. At the moment the system of the seasonal pastures turnover is disorganized.

Project aim:
Raise the degraded lands and pastures production through introduction of alternative land use methods.

Project tasks:
- Development and implementation of land degradation reduction program on the territory of the rural consumers cooperative
- Raising the degraded lands production through sowing of the perennials adapted to the local conditions
- Arrangement of the pastures turnover and use of alternative energy sources (wind, solar) for improvement of local community livelihood on the remote pastures
- Propaganda of the project results for further duplication in the Eastern Kazakhstan

Project results:
- The developed pastures rehabilitation and sustainable use program allow farmers to carry out purposefully the actions to prevent pastures degradation processes and to guarantee realization the project activity on sustainable pastures use after the financing of the project is completed
- 300 hectares of the haying lands created by cropping the grasses adapted for local conditions
- Fodder lands production increased
- The pastures turnover on the area of 1000 hectares organized for prevention of the pastures degradation
- Local community awareness rose