Drita Dade, Sr. Natural Resource Management Specialist, The World Bank

1. Tajikistan Environmental Land
Management and Rural
Livelihoods
Drita Dade
Sr. Natural Resource Management Specialist
The World Bank
Global Landscape Forum
Bonn, December 1, 2018

2. Environmental Land Management and Rural
Livelihoods Project (ELMARL)
• 90% of Tajikistan’s area (14.1 million
ha) is mountainous, and only 6%
arable lands
• 2/3 of population is rural;
agriculture accounts for 64% of
employment
• Tajikistan’s agriculture sector is
particularly exposed to climate risks
- subsistence agriculture,
pastoralism
• 31.3% lived below poverty line
o Duration: October 2013 – May 2018
o Funding: US$ 17.64 million (GEF, PPCR, IDA)

3. ELMARL OBJECTIVE
 to increase the productive assets
of rural people (social, human,
physical, financial)
 to improve natural resource
management
 to improve resilience to climate
change
In 6 climate vulnerable districts
OVERALL RESULTS
323,393 direct beneficiaries (48%
women)
53% of people with an increased
20% income and livelihood assets
53,390 households have adopted
SLM in climate-vulnerable areas
44, 235 of ha improved - effective
agricultural, land and water
management practices

4. Water Management
 reduced salinity and water-
logging and mud-flows on
to fields
 increased crop yields on
land managed by
communities.
 prevented erosion and
gully formation
 improved water
distribution in the fields
 increase from 47 to 67% in
water availability

5. Water management
 Adoption of drip
irrigation for horticulture
increased production per
unit area and decreased
water use

6. Land Management
1, 500 investments in
intercropped horticulture,
greenhouses and bee-
keeping

7. Pasture Management
 Access to under-utilized
summer pastures
 Improved roads and
seasonal animal shelters
 Rotational management of
seasonal grazing areas
 Improved livestock
breeding

8. Carbon Sequestration
 A systematic assessment
(using the EX-ACT tool) of
the carbon balance in more
than 2,500 rural
investments.
 Over 1,000 soil samples
analyzed to determine the
soil nutrient content and
chemical composition
 Overall carbon balance of -
976,460 tons of CO2-
equivalent over a 20 year
period.

9. Knowledge & experience
 Sustainable Land
Management Platform
created
 148 instructional good
practice short videos
produced by 16 COs
 36,836 training days were
delivered (8,235 female
participants)
 350 different types of
training, communication
materials produced

10. Voice of the Beneficiaries
“A new deal in rural
Tajikistan” with jobs
created, social cohesion
reinforced, abandoned
land back into use and a
diversity of food stuffs in
the households.