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EcoWeek 2013

From 28 May-5 June 2013 EcoWeek 2013 is to be held in Uzbekistan which is dedicated to the celebration of 5th June – World Environment Day and 25th anniversary of the State Committee for Nature Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 5 June is a great holiday for all lovers of nature, and services that nature provides us from its bounty...

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PIONEERS on drip irrigation

To get to the Fergana Valley, you need to jump over the Kamchik mountain pass. At high altitudes the air is clear, near the meadows, the greenery of the slopes is bright. The Fergana Valley is pear-shaped. It is crossed by the Syrdarya streams and canals. We start at the pass and see the edges of the “pear” - an empty steppe where water doesn’t reach.

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Conference dedicated to 5th anniversary of GEF SGP operations in Uzbekistan

The first steps were made towards the introduction of various technologies in using alternative sources of energy, we were a good step in the promotion of biogas technology that could radically change the daily work and the hard life of the farmers.

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WORLD: Only a quarter of a century left until the «climate bomb» exploded - Alexei Kokorin's comments

Natural climate cycles and human-induced global climate change are beginning to intensify rather than reduce each other’s effects, as they do now. As a result, the combination of natural...

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Innovation Fair - from developing an idea to starting a new partnership

In April 2013, the UzExpoMarkaz exhibition center in Tashkent hosted the annual exhibition of innovative technologies and solutions in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers.

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Contribute to a global discussion about our common future

What can we do to change this direction of human development? Is this a development? What are the alternatives? All this is in the focus of the OON system and the entire world community. You can also participate in the discussion of the human development model.

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UNESCO - Supporting the rural population of South Karakalpakstan

It is a high-yielding, drought-tolerant plant that grows in saline soils in the northern regions of Uzbekistan and other land-degraded districts and regions.

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Plants in numbers

Transparent petals, twigs and buds that have lost their color - this is how many imagine a herbarium. However, with the introduction of computer technology in the process of studying the diversity of nature, these images may change radically.

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Training on laser leveling technology in Karakalpakstan

Laser leveling is a forgotten technology of the 20th century that promises to be the perfect solution to the 21st century's renewable and land degradation problems.

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