ABSTRACT
Humans depend on land resources for provisions, and the sustainability of land capital to provide sustenance becomes invaluable with population growth. An increasing number of reports suggest a growing understanding among diverse groups of stakeholders that the inappropriate exploitation of land resources results in land degradation, and a decrease or complete loss of productivity. A focus on natural resource management is crucial for sustainable agriculture in Central Asia. The problem of the smallness of new farms can be addressed through policies tailored to enable such farms to form voluntary service cooperatives, such as for marketing, accessing credits, joint machinery use and purchasing inputs and equipment. The challenge for the Greater Central Asian countries remains one of an overwhelming focus on land reform, as opposed to agrarian reform, and leads to a lack of acknowledgment that the countries in the Greater Central Asia’s region have taken various development paths.
