Zhanartu (Rehabilitation of biodiversity of tamarisk-wormwood-saltwort ecosystem on degraded overflow lands around “Zhangeldy” aul by reduction of pasture over-usage and creation of places of artificial fodder crops production on irrigated lands belonging to the local community)
Desertification keeps aggressing villages and auls. As it was indicated in the Strategic Environmental Program of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the main reasons are not only draughty climatic conditions but also antropogenic factors. These factors affected negatively Aral region, not only the territory close to the sea, but also Sur-Daria river banks, particularly ecosystems of overflow lands inhibited by the main part of population in Kzyl-Orda and north-west South Kasahkstan oblasts. In recent years, the excessive use of overflow lands ecosystems is also caused by transition period crisis. The main part of local population is unable either to move its thin cattle to distant pastures or to produce fodder in place of residence. In other words, absence of fodder leads to overgrazing, the latter leads to beating pastures down and to degradation of lands around places of residence. At present such negative facts are characteristic for all arid lands in Kasazkhstan.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Farmer of Kazakhstan Public Foundation
Country:
Kazakhstan
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 24,969.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 74,667.00
Project Number:
KAZ/98/10
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
The local community is provided with livelihood alternatives, such as a lucerne industry that can provide the local community with hay for cattle in the winter period.
Capacity - Building Component
The local community will be trained in effective technologies for parture management, and in the methods of lucerne cultivation, such as «Basics of the ground processing», «Regulation of lucerne planting and harvest gathering», and «Sewage-farm, harvest-gathering rules».
Seminars on land degradation and the conservation of pasture biodiversity will be held.
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Zharas Tugulbayev
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Ms. Zhazira Altybayeva
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