A paper on the 'Development of Agriculture Information Services in Central Asia and the Caucasus' by Oleg Shatberashvili and Ajit Maru was planned for the recent IFLA congress in Quebec. Unfortunately, the authors could not be there to present it.The paper looks at the status of agricultural information services in five countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) and in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia).The authors conclude that "there is the need to improve access of researchers to international and regional STI and participate in sharing and exchanging regional information internationally. It implies both traditional library networks and ICT-based services."There is also a "need to enable access to agricultural information to not...
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from Turkish WeeklyAs Tajikistan’s government announces plans to cut the number of poor people by one-quarter by 2010, commentators say the measurement of poverty needs to be both accurate and ongoing, since it is a relative concept.In order to achieve its goal, the government is drafting a document that will see funding earmarked from external investment and domestic budget revenues to implement poverty reduction strategies that are already in place.Rustam Jaborov, one of the architects of the government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, said this programme and Tajikistan’s National Development Strategy to 2015 both envisage that some five billion US dollars drawn from loans, direct investment, and grants, will be spent on developing the economy and creating new production capacity and...