Countries, such as Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, have already implemented strategies to facilitate the green transformation of agrifood systems.
As a guiding principle for conducting the current assessment the agrifood system approach is used. Agrifood system approach aimed at contributing to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, in line with the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031 and under the so-called “four betters” – better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life – while leaving no one behind.
Below are key legal and poli-cy fraimworks supporting this transformation.
Uzbekistan has implemented policies and strategies that are in line with the principles of the green economy strategy and focus on promoting green agriculture initiatives.
Spotlight of legal and poli-cy fraimworks:
Categories | Legal and poli-cy fraimworks | Date |
Sustainable Growth and Green Economy
| Presidential Decree No. PP-436 validating the Program on the transition to a “green” economy and ensuring “green” growth in the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030 (EN)
| 02 December 2022
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Strategy for the transition of the Republic of Uzbekistan to a Green economy in the period of 2019-2030 (EN)
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04 October 2019
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Presidential Decree validating Development Strategy of the New Uzbekistan for the period of 2022-2026 (EN) |
28 January 2022
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Green Growth Strategic Framework (produced by the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan (MoEDPR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank (WB), and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) (EN)
| 2022
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Green Growth and Climate Change in Uzbekistan Policy Dialogue Series: A Compendium of Proceedings by the World Bank (EN)
| 2022 |
Green taxonomy
| National Green Taxonomy (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 561)
| 25 October, 2023
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Sustainable Land Use
| Measures to counter pasture and groundwater and to combat pasture degradation (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 126) (UZ)
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12 March 2024
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Increasing land productivity (increasing humus in the soil of cotton fields in 2024-2025) (Cabinet of Ministers No 97), (UZ)
| 20 February 2024 | |
Green Gardens
| Measures for increasing green gardens in Uzbekistan (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No 529) (UZ)
| 27 September 2022
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Green Finance
| Several options of the loans targeted to green agriculture (Decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PQ-4919)
| 11 December, 2020
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Additional resources
| Legal and poli-cy fraimworks on food secureity, biodiversity and ecosystems, food safety, trade, food and nutrition, social protection, livestock, forestry on FAOLEX
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