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GIZ Program:

Enhancing Economic and Environmental Welfare in the Aral Sea Region

Benjamin Mohr Senior Advisor GIZ Kazakhstan


Enhancing Economic and Environmental Welfare in the Aral Sea Region (EEWA)

• The motto of the regional EEWA program is: “Making more of less – Developing opportunities amid dwindling resources”

• EEWA`s concern is to facilitate “green growth”:

• an economically and environmentally sustainable development for the benefit of the people living in the Aral Sea Region.

• On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) EEWA provides:

• Support to regional and national development strategies

• Technical assistance and capacity development for

• Producers, service providers and the administration

• Opportunities for regional exchange, learning and networks


Think regional, act regional

• EEWA is part of the Aral Sea Basin Program-3 (ASBP-3) of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS):

• ASBP-3 follows four major direction:

• I Integrated Water Resources Management

• II Environmental Protection

• III Socio-economic Development

• EEWA is implemented within this direction

• IV Improvement of institutional and legal instruments

• IWM is addressed within the EEWA program by:

• Resource saving technologies

• Management of aquatic resources

• Alternative agricultural development


Value chain promotion as a key instrument

• Value chain promotion provides technical assistance and capacity development for producers, service providers and the administration of selected sub-sectors:

• Melons, liquorice and greenhouse products

• Fodder crops, aquaculture and fisheries

• Handicrafts and horticulture

• The value chains are set so as to generate explicit environmental benefits, by:

• Applying principles of sustainable resource use in agriculture

• Introducing Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and Integrated Pest Management

• Promoting quality standards and product safety

• Promoting energy efficiency and the use of alternative energies


Resource saving technologies:Good Agricultural Practice

• Promotion of Alfalfa based water preserving crop rotation systems:

• Improved seeds, training of trainers and farmers, field days

• Improved soil fertility management

• Availability of winter fodder and farmers profit

• Supporting of certified local seed production


Resource saving technologies: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• Integrated Pest Management to fight the Baluchistan Melon Fly:

• Elaboration and dissemination of IPM schemes

• Training plant protection services, trainers and demonstration of IPM on farm level

• Publication of guide books and information for farmers in 5 languages

• Joint development of national IPM approaches

• Certification of melon production (in process)


Resource saving technologies: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• Increase of production and net earning from melons in Karakalpakstan, decrease of expenditures for pesticides

Year 2006 2009 2010 Prodcution (to) 10248 47110 64350Production (area ha) 5310 9422 12870


• Fisheries and Aquaculture:

• Ecosystem-based enhancement fisheries and aquaculture in selected lake systems

• Development of enhancement strategies

• Introducing adaptive fisheries management practice

• Ecological and economical assessments

• Capacity Development for producer, service providers and administration

Management of aquatic resources: Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture


• Greenhouse production:

• Practical extension for producers and trainings for service providers to secure investments and increase production

• Preparation of training modules and guidelines

• Applying principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) including bio-control

Alternative agricultural development:Greenhouse production


• Renewable Energy supply for pastoral settlements

• Pilot Systems based on photo-voltaic solutions developed

• Socio-economic conditions of remote livestock farmers improved

• Contributions to sustainable pasture management

Alternative agricultural development:Decentralised rural energy supply


Integrated Water Management:Analysis of the Baseline Survey

• In 2010 EEWA conducted a socio-economic survey covering 300 farming households

• Selected analysis concerning water management



• Absence of water saving technologies


• Sufficiency of water for irrigation



Integrated Water Management: Analysis of the Baseline Survey

• Organisation of water user:

No Yes


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