This issue of Caravan showcases some of ICARDA’s efforts of coping with climate change in dry areas with improved water land management and resilient production systems.

This Law establishes moratorium on transfer (transformation) of irrigated arable land to other categories of land. This provision shall not be applicable to cemeteries. Irrigated arable land transferred to cemeteries shall not be used for other purposes.

The right of property in Turkmenistan is recognized and protected, the law ensures inviolability, equal protection and equal conditions for the development of all types and forms of property. Objects of property can be: land, subsoil, water resources, forests, flora and fauna, mining allotments.

Across Central Asia, agriculture largely depends on irrigation due to arid and semi-arid climatic conditions. Water is abstracted from rivers, which are largely fed by glacier melt.

The President, with a view of improvement of drainage state of irrigated agricultural land and rational management of water resources, validates a set of arrangements for the purpose of ensuring stable and sustainable functioning of agricultural sector, improvement of soil fertility and yield of