Аннотация:Sree cross-linked projects with SLM component have been/are implemented/ in
Tajikistan : Community Agriculture and Watershed Management Project (CAWMP): 2004 – 2012;
Land Registration and Cadastral System for Sustainable Agriculture Project (LRCSP): 2005-2014;
and Environmental Land Management and Rural Livelihoods Project (ELMARL): proposed for
2013-2017. CAWMP and ELMARL have a Global Environmental Facility (GEF) supported component.
e projects’ SLM policy is successive, although different projects cover diverse directions
of agricultural development: community actions and participatory capacities building, peculiarities
of land privatization and fragmentation, and climate change adaptation. e synergy of the
projects environmental results appears in: Awareness raising in environmental risks assessment,
application of environmentally and economically effective technologies in farm production; Experience
in water- , soil- and energy-saving technologies in rural areas; Improvement of sanitary
and ecologic conditions in villages; Rehabilitation of degraded lands (incl. irrigated) and increase
of soils fertility; Rehabilitation and access to pastures; Fixing erosion on slope lands by woodlots,
horticulture, haying, etc. Lessons learned for further results development are the following. Negative:
Low skills of project environmental stuff, Weak contacts with governmental stakeholders
responsible for environmental issues, Lack of information sharing and low use of Web opportunities,
Weak integration with other projects and donors. Positive: Growth of level of national
environmental Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), High effectiveness of local small interventions
(boom-up) in comparison with national-level activities (top-down), Replicability and
sustainabilty of environmentally sound activities, Increasing aention to pastures as an important
natural resource, Rising possibilities and capacities to space imagery use.