ABSTRACT
Reforms over the past decade in Central Asia have generally had negative impacts on the systems of extensive pastoral livestock husbandry which are the subject of this book. To more fully understand why this is so, it is useful to compare the situation in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan with other ex-Soviet Central Asian states. Expanding the comparison wider, it is found that the livestock sector has fared better in other Asian states which are transforming from command to market economies but have undergone rather different reform processes in the past decade.
