07 Mar 2006

Cotton Sector in Central Asia: SOAS 2005 Conference Materials
Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, SOAS, University of London, UK
Supplied note: "On 3-4 November 2005, the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London held a conference entitled 'Cotton Sector in Central Asia: Economic policy and development challenges'. Now the materials of this conference (conference programme, summaries of papers, PowerPoint presentations, list of participants) are available online at: [the URL below] The full text format publication is forthcoming. - js."
Site contents: * Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Dr Deniz Kandiyoti * Panel 1: The Cotton Sector in Development: asset or liability? (Max Spoor - Cotton: Curse or Foundation for Development in Central Asia? Mike Thurman - The Role of International Financial Institutions in the Production and Marketing of Cotton in Central Asia); * Panel 2: Export and the International environment (John Baffes - Cotton-Dependent Countries in the Global Context, Alisher Ilkhamov - Cotton and textile fair trade and labour standards: implications for Central Asia, Mavlyuda Kulikova - The legal framework of Uzbek cotton procurement and export); * Panel 3: The role of domestic policies (Sandjar Djalalov - Implicit Taxation of Uzbekistan Cotton Sector: Estimation and Policy Consequences, Alexander Kim - Abandoned by the state: Cotton production in southern Kyrgyzstan, Olga Dosybieva - The cotton sector in Kazakhstan : the thorny way to the market economy); * Panel 4: Organization of production - labour and productivity Tommaso Trevisani - The Emerging Actor of Decollectivization' in Uzbekistan : Private farming between newly defined political constraints and opportunities, Iskandar Abdullayev - Cotton in Uzbekistan : Water and Welfare, Daur Dosybiev - Uzbek labour migrants in Kazakh cotton fields); * Panel 5: Governance issues: Case studies (Michael Hall - Governance and the cotton sector in Tajikistan, Farid Tukhbatullin - Turkmen cotton: treasure turned into burden, Raphael Jozan - Recombining socio-technical networks of the Uzbekistani agrarian system: the Ferghana Valley during the transition period, Ian Houseman - Demonstration and Advisory Services in the cotton sectorĐ A Case Study in Ak Altin, Uzbekistan); * Panel 6: Socio-political context (Tashpulat Yuldashev - Uzbek cotton: on the crossroads of vested interests, J.Otto Pohl - A Caste of Helot Labourers: Special Settlers and the Cultivation of Cotton in Soviet Central Asia: 1944-1956); * Panel 7: Social and environmental impact (Nargis Halimova - The cotton sector in Tajikistan from macro-economic impact to social and environmental consequences, Akhmad Hoji Khoresmiy - Impact of the cotton sector on soil degradation, Elliott Cannell - The Role of Children in Uzbekistan 's Cotton Harvest); * List of Participants; * Conference Program; * Photos.
URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/centreinfo.cfm?navid=1030#Anchor-In-44591
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Link reported by: Jane Savory (js64--at--soas.ac.uk), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
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