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1. The Badakshan’s (GBAO), climatic features (winter lasts about 6-8 months), geography - mountainous nature, poor land fertility, availability of pastures, and scarcity of agri-lands stipulates prioritization of the livestock production (mostly yaks and fine-wool sheep), poultry, beekeeping, fishery rather than agri-plants production; 2. Quality of seeds such as wheat and potatoes and their adaption to the region’s climate is essential. Priority should be given to the seeds with short and medium vegetation period; 3. Demography changes mostly increasing population density requires more fo... Read moreod which is impossible to cope with by the local farm capacity and region always will need import of food commodities form other regions; 4. Region’s geography and its remoteness makes the region highly dependent on the investment of the central government. This factor leads to higher prices of food commodities but meat compare with other regions which are 40 to 30% for staple foods; 5. The most expedient and cost effective option for the development of the region is using/developing its natural resources and tourism rather than developing agriculture, except for promotion of the livestock production; 6. There is an area of 1000 ha in Rushan district that can be used for production of seeds adapted to the regional climate; 7. The region is a convenient area for fruit production (apple, mulberry, figs, walnuts etc) which have specific taste and features. But there is a number of pests that can be an obstacle, which can be addressed through establishing pest management centers and implementation of Integrated Pest Management practices. This also enables the extension of local fruits to domestic and even export markets if their requirement will be introduced; 8. Demand for pulses is high in region therefore planting of pulses should be priority in arable lands; 9. Considering availability of condition for development of livestock production (about 97% of agri-lands are represented by pastures) it is necessary to animal feeds and feeding centers that may grow animals, slaughter in good sanitary condition and ensure safety of the meat and by-products; 10. Feeds must be safe and do not jeopardize animal health and further human health; 11. Available pastures are not well managed and sometimes animals go for grazing earlier than it is recommended which leads to their devastation. Therefore there should be an officially approved grazing schedule. These and other problems of pasture management must be addressed in the specific state-owned program; 12. For livestock development, there are a number of challenges such as wintering of agri-animals and feeds availability for wintering which is directly associated with short grazing time, about 2 months. This can be addressed by moving animal herds in the for wintering to areas of lower altitude (for instance Khatlon region) where winter is relatively warmer and feeds can be more accessible; 13. According to available information the prevalence of anemia amongst women of reproductive age and infants in the region is 40-46%, even 60% in some districts that are conditioned by poor diet diversity, inequality of food calories to the physical or age-related demands, and inadequate breastfeeding practices. That is why, enhancing awareness of the population on diet diversity, benefits of breastfeeding, rational infant feeding is essential. 14. The animal farms should be consolidated within cooperatives to ensure their sustainability and access to funds, farm machinery and revolving funds that can be established in such cooperatives; 15. The region lack of processing facilities. There is only milk processing facility. Establishing and further promotion of processing facilities for fruits processing, meat and milk processing is very beneficial for the region; 16. Poor roads infrastructure their bad conditions and impassiveness in winter are one of the influential obstacles in food accessibility; 17. The regional production can cover only 19% of the regional demand for wheat; 18. The region can cover 70% of its demand for potatoes but lack of storing facilities leads to 40% of the yearly harvest losses; 19. The region may self-sufficient by meat, poultry and fruits if invest on their storage, processing, streamline their trade (legalize middlemen practice). Some middlemen earn 2-5 times more than framers which demotivate framers to engage in agriculture; 20. There are more than 16000 farms most of them are small holding 00.2 – 0.2 ha lands. To enable their effectiveness there is need for their unification; 21. Poor control and monitoring of food placed in market due to lack of competent laboratories may pose a risk on consumers health; 22. All available challenges in the food systems of the region can be addressed locally only for 20% the rest depends on the central level involvement; 23. Availability of thermal springs should be used for establishing greenhouses which may provide domestic market with green and fresh vegetables: 24. Poor purchasing power of consumers in the region is main factor contributing in consumption of food of poor quality; 25. Consider international and local standards and requirements on production of food products and improve control of their safety; 26. Development of the comprehensive national food safety strategy can address many challenges of the food systems; 27. The region I disaster prone area and there are often flooding, avalanche, landslide which along with poor road infrastructure may have negative impact on food security in the region. Read less

The dialogue run with discussion of the National Food Systems strength and weaknesses and ways to address them The discussions mostly focused on activities to be implemented for addressing prioritized challenges like legal framework, uni cation of small farms under cooperatives or associations to enhance their access to nance, machinery, water resources and release from tax pressure. Ne of the key pint of the discussion was gender inequality which also re ected in attendance of the dialogue (only woman). It was noted that due to intense labor migration women became dd fact and in some extend d... Read moree jure farm owners and are less competitive with man headed farms that should be addressed by speci c state programme. Improving investment of agriculture sector and decreasing credit commissions, strengthening capacity of competent agencies responsible for food control. Introduction international standards like ISO, GAP, GHP Codex Alimentariues were also closely discussed by participants during group work session and their presentations Read less

1. Promote marketing of the agriculture products in domestic and international markets to enhance demand based production (for instance for spring onion, melon, watermelon, lemons, fresh, canned and dried fruits and vegetables); 2. Provide access farm owners, processing companies to the official statistic data to enable them to base production and processing agricultural products pursuant to the market demand; 3. Improve farmers and food processors literacy on finance management, national and international food quality and safety standards and sanitary and phytosanitary requirements; 4. To dev... Read moreelop legal mechanism/framework for unification of small and medium dehkan farms under association or cooperatives or other structures to strength their capacity, competitiveness and sustainability; 5. Improve awareness of population on benefits of breast-feeding, diet diversification and food fortification mostly for women and children and responsible consumption; 6. Assessing management of food wastes generated in households, conventional; markets including fresh markets (bazaars), their disposal and ensure regular official data base on that; 7. Enhance fortification of the food (flour and salt) by vitamins and iodine to prevent stunting and endemic goiter and strengthen enforcing actions toward non-compliances Considering level of soil productivity and pest infestation in Tajikistan it is important to promote science based approach in proper use of agrichemicals and fertilizers to enhance production of agricultural foods. For this it is necessary to strength capacity of the national scientific institution including their laboratory network; 8. Review of the legal framework focusing on marketing and monitoring of the land use and improve farmers and producers/processors literacy on thatImproving livestock effectiveness by breeding agricultural species sustainable in Tajikistan climate conditions, Same approach should be applied in crops production; 9. Improve investment climate mostly government subsidies/grants. For instance 3% subsidies may increase production up to 30%; 10. Increase national food stock increasing storing capacity; 11. Management of the staple products prices in domestic market, indexation of the wages to enable access of the population (mostly marginalized population) to the staple products; 12. Prevent excessive use of pastures and introduction of the good pasture management practice; 13. Access to meet and its by-products is poor due to regular rise of process. Therefore it is necessary to access to these products by enhancing effectiveness of livestock and poultry production via production and import of animal feeds; 14. There is poor access of farmers to small machinery like small sized tractors, that is way there is need to address this challenge by making them available in machinery parks 15. Improve investment environment. Loans commission should not exceed 1%; 16. Improve activity of the farmers and producers/processors association The associations must be active in advocacy of framers rights, addressing challenges and have revolving funds to support its members if need be but not only to collect membership fee only; 17. The challenge of the farmers and producers finance and juridical/legal literacy should be improved by providing trainings; 18. Improve and streamline insurance procedures in agriculture and give flexibility to farmers on insurance payment (for instance divide payments by quarters or by months). Read less

The dialogue run with discussion of the National Food Systems strength and weaknesses and ways to address them The discussions mostly focused on activities to be implemented for addressing prioritized challenges like legal framework, uni cation of small farms under cooperatives or associations to enhance their access to nance, machinery, water resources and release from tax pressure. Ne of the key pint of the discussion was gender inequality which also re ected in attendance of the dialogue (only woman). It was noted that due to intense labor migration women became dd fact and in some extend d... Read moree jure farm owners and are less competitive with man headed farms that should be addressed by speci c state programme. Improving investment of agriculture sector and decreasing credit commissions, strengthening capacity of competent agencies responsible for food control. Introduction international standards like ISO, GAP, GHP Codex Alimentariues were also closely discussed by participants during group work session and their presentations Read less

1. Involve women and youth from vulnerable segments of the population in activities designed to protect the biodiversity in mountainous through their closer in involvement in the promotion of safe beekeeping; 2. Review the legal base to eliminate contradictions on agriculture and export diversification; 3. Application of the modern irrigation approaches such as drip irrigation and preventing fast water evaporation to use water resources more effectively and prevent environment form degradation; 4. Prevent excessive and improper use of agrochemicals and veterinary drugs and widely apply good ag... Read morericulture, hygiene and manufacturing practices; 5. Enhance transport/road infrastructure to support food distribution to both domestic and export markets; 6. Engage completely all irrigated and rain feed lands, mostly Presidential and household plots; 7. Planning planting quality seeds and seedlings pursuant to the regional climatic peculiarities; 8. Provide scientific support for assessing land and animals fertility and adaptation of the seeds, seedlings and animals species to the country climatic conditions; 9. To support dehkan farms and food processors in improving their access to machinery parks and other modern technologies for processing, packaging and labeling of the produce; 10. Improve capacity of food control bodies in laboratory testing, categorization of the food operators and application of the risk based approach in carrying out control and inspection activities; 11. Introduction of the modern methods in processing agriculture products for instance drying and preservation of spring anion, fruits and some vegetables to mitigate losses; 12. Establish logistic centers in regions to support and promote collection and distribution of harvest which also support export of the agriculture products; 13. Increase number of storing facilities and 4quip them with refrigerators to prevent losses. For this also provide scientific support in good storing practices based on modern harvest and post-harvest technologies; 14. Widely apply internationally recognized standards and methodologies in food production such as ISO, GHP, GAP, IPM, HACC, Codex Alimentarus; 15. Facilitate widely trans-boundary trade by simplification customs procedures, reconstruction of roads; 16. Promote marketing of the agriculture products in domestic and international markets to enhance demand based production (for instance for spring onion, melon, watermelon, lemons, fresh, canned and dried fruits and vegetables); Read less