Kyrgyz Republic : Agricultural Policy Update, Volume1. Overview

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO CREDIT;    ACCESS TO FUNDS;    ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ACCOUNTING;    ADVISORY SERVICE;   

RP-ID  :  70322

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This policy note examines the policy andinvestment framework between 2003 and 2010, resulting sectorperformance and the priorities for future development. Itdraws attention to the need to refocus on completing thefundamental reforms and investments on whichKyrgyzstan's early successes were built. These includefurther development of land market, building rural financemarkets, further public investment and institutionaldevelopment in the irrigation sector, encouraging greaterprivate investment in the seeds sector and machineryservices, public-private partnerships for advisory serviceprovision, completion of ongoing reforms in pasturemanagement, development of veterinary services and improvingthe business environment for private investment inagro-processing. The policy Note discusses thegovernment's approach to achieving greater foodsecurity, which centers on food self-sufficiency anddiscusses why this is not the best route to raising lowrural incomes - the root cause of food insecurity. Thereport discusses some of the policies conceived after thefood price crisis, including intervention in output markets,and argues that these are likely to be unaffordable,ineffective and will divert limited resources away from moreimportant reforms. The policy note describes possibleapproaches to development of the sector, including minimalgovernment intervention in markets, promoting responsibilityfor management of natural resources with communities,facilitating user contributions to infrastructureinvestments and the cost of services and provision of publicservices through private providers. These were thefoundation of many of Kyrgyzstan's earlier successesbut also respond to the new imperatives brought about by the2010 political crisis, including the renewed urgency forgrowth and stability in the agricultural sector to rebuildrural communities, fiscal discipline to address the budgetdeficit and improved governance to restore confidence ingovernment. The strategic objectives could more usefullyemphasize the need to: a) raise rural incomes; b) protectvulnerable consumers from price and supply shocks; c)increase agricultural profitability and reduce risk; d)protect consumers from public health risks; and e) arrestenvironmental degradation and loss of biodiversity.