Kazakhstan is a country with historically developed traditions of pasture management. During the Soviet period collective and state farms received sufficient resources for organization of the cattle breeding on remote areas: for pastures water supply, repairing and maintenance of wells, transportation of cattle, welfare actions for families of shepherds. Distant pasture cattle breeding was carried out by professional shepherds who well knew pastures and technology of their use.

Now people are not able either financially, or physically independently organize the cattle breeding to the remote areas. Infringement of the pasture management mechanisms, absence of professional shepherds and lack of financial resources to arrange cattle breeding to the remote areas has led to ecological, economic and social problems, like poverty of the population, employment, population migration, etc. The situation is aggravated by unprecedented pressure on pastures round the villages, which has already led to progressively developing processes of the pastures degradation, and in some cases, the extremely admissible limits of the land erodibility have exceeded 7-fold value.

The project is directed on search and adaptation of traditional knowledge and methods of sustainable pasture management in various nature-climatic zones of Kazakhstan and development of the program system approach to their long-term operation.

1. Selection of traditional methods of pasture management in various natural zones of Kazakhstan and their adaptation to the current situation.
2. Preparation of methodology and recommendations of rational pasture use in mountain, desert, semi-desert, dry-steppe and steppe zones of the country.
3. Development of typical schemes of the projects with various approaches to rational pasture use.
4. Search and a choose local communities for further realization of the project activity.
5. Training of the local community members in rational pasture use
6. Assistance to the local communities in development of local projects and working off of the mechanism of sustainable pasture use in the chosen nature-climatic zones.
7. Consulting support to the local communities? projects.
8. Propaganda of knowledge and distribution of the reached results among local population, state bodies and donors

Expected results:
- Methodology and recommendation on rational pasture use in various nature-climatic zones of Kazakhstan will be developed in Kazakh
- 8-10 villages will be covered by the project to settlement of local initiative groups among the local communities to further cooperate with, a series of trainings will be arranged on methods of revealing basic problems of the settlement, definition of the ways to solve them, skills to develop projects and to mobilize resources for projects realization
- 10 local projects on rational pasture use in various natural zones of the republic will developed
- program approach for restoration and sustainable pasture use in various zones will be designed.
- recommendations for further project duplicating will be developed and presented to the state bodies, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, regional and local akimats, etc.