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Agricultural development in Central Asia requires a systemic approach that accounts for the various implications of agriculture resource use for economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Currently, there is no place in Central Asia where such an approach has been instituted in an academic environment that links cutting edge research to graduate education at international standards. This project aims at the creation of a collaborative research environment for doctoral researchers that is based at Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME) in Uzbekistan and that is established and maintained jointly with Justus Liebig University Gießen, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) and a network of international partners. The establishment of this Graduate School is driven by four guiding principles: (A) competitive and transparent recruitment of doctoral researchers, (B) focus on research topics that build a bridge between the international academic discourse and agricultural development challenges relevant for Central Asia, (C) structured education and training of the doctorate students that enables them to conduct independent research, and (D) integration into a network of international partners and events. Doctoral researchers for the Graduate School will be recruited internationally in an open call for applications and will be selected based on their prior qualification. Research and education are structured along a matrix defined by the three dimensions of economic, social, and ecological sustainability and the five research areas (1) farm restructuring & labour relations, (2) agricultural innovation & technology, (3) agricultural policy, (4) environmental change & agriculture, (5) water governance.

• Prof. Dr. Martin Petrick

  Universität Gießen
  Institut für Agrarpolitik und Marktforschung
  Professur für Agrar-, Ernährungs- und
  Umweltpolitik
  Gießen
  

• Dr. Shavkat Hasanov

  Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and
  Agricultural Mechanization Engineers
  (TIIAME)
  Tashkent
  Usbekistan
  

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Herzfeld

  Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung
  in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO)
  Leiter der Abteilung Agrarpolitik
  Halle (Saale)
  

• Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld

  Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrar- und
  Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissen-
  schaften und Informatik; Institut für Agrar- und
  Ernährungswissenschaften; Professur Agrar-,
  Umwelt- und Ernährungspolitik
  Halle (Saale)
  

• Ordered to volunteer? Institutional compatibility assessment of establishing agricultural cooperatives in Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan s cotton clusters in the context of the industrial policy debate

• Does zero tillage save or increase production costs? Evidence from smallholders in Kyrgyzstan

• Policy analysis with Melitz-type gravity model: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan