http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:58:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/comment-page-1/#comment-5202 Global Voices Online » Tajikistan: Food crisis Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:36:57 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/08/19/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/#comment-5202 [...] reports about the striking facts of the aggravating food crisis in Tajikistan. Posted by Adil Nurmakov [...] [...] reports about the striking facts of the aggravating food crisis in Tajikistan. Posted by Adil Nurmakov [...]

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/comment-page-1/#comment-5201 Food crisis and boxing « Sophismata Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:08:03 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/08/19/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/#comment-5201 [...] wheat imports, virtually shutting off Tajikistan’s primary supply of grain, and leaving “more than 60% of households in Tajikistan down to only one warm meal a day“. More than 1.5 million people in Tajikistan, about one-fifth of the population, are [...] [...] wheat imports, virtually shutting off Tajikistan’s primary supply of grain, and leaving “more than 60% of households in Tajikistan down to only one warm meal a day“. More than 1.5 million people in Tajikistan, about one-fifth of the population, are [...]

]]> http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/comment-page-1/#comment-5200 DVA Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:34:10 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2008/08/19/food-crisis-continues-10-million-from-un-wfp/#comment-5200 80% of the Tajik population is rural, although a lot (most?) of the rural men have migrated to other CIS countries for cash work. The villages could produce a lot more food for themselves if the government did not insist that most of the irrigatedland be given to producing cotton, and then pay so little for it that the most valuable thing the farm workers receive is the right to collect the stalks for fuel. Unfortunately, the Tajik elite controls and benefits from the cotton business, so they have no interest in changing things. (The president has said it's good the country folk are poor, since they're easier to control). The donors are enabling this bad policy since the government expects to be given handouts, but on the other hand it's not obvious what else the international community can or should do. 80% of the Tajik population is rural, although a lot (most?) of the rural men have migrated to other CIS countries for cash work. The villages could produce a lot more food for themselves if the government did not insist that most of the irrigatedland be given to producing cotton, and then pay so little for it that the most valuable thing the farm workers receive is the right to collect the stalks for fuel. Unfortunately, the Tajik elite controls and benefits from the cotton business, so they have no interest in changing things. (The president has said it’s good the country folk are poor, since they’re easier to control). The donors are enabling this bad policy since the government expects to be given handouts, but on the other hand it’s not obvious what else the international community can or should do.

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