The document discusses efforts to promote sustainable land management in Central Asia through knowledge sharing and capacity building activities carried out by ICARDA-CAC and GIZ, including developing an online knowledge platform and database of 90 sustainable land management technologies and approaches for various agro-ecosystems in the region. It also describes the development of similarity maps to identify suitable areas for demonstrating selected sustainable land management packages using national data in countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

1. Knowledge for Sustainable Land Management in
CACILM II
Bishkek, 13 July 2016

4. Diverse and operational
partnership to address Sustainable
Land Management in Central Asia
• Collaborative effort of ICARDA-CAC
and GIZ to promote SLM in the
region
• Developed into 3-year ICARDA
project supported by IFAD (2013-
16)
• Logical continuation of earlier SLM-
research and other projects
conducted within CACILM I
Challenges

5. Распространение знаний
Платформа знаний
Материалы на 2
языках
Адрес сайта –
www.cacilm.org

6. CACILM.ORG WEBSITE STATS
1 year stats
Views 19714
Visitors 3463
Top-5 countries
Kazakhstan 997
Uzbekistan 941
Russia 566
Jordan 430
Kyrgyzstan 369
Total pageviews
19,714
Sessions visits
5,304
Kazakhstan
997
Uzbekistan
941
Russia
566
Jordan
430
Kyrgyzstan
369
Total websitevisits
3,303
Top5 countries visiting website
Number of Posts 83
Followers 848
Reach (# of people who saw CACILM info) 32,972
Engagement ( Number of people who liked,
commented on, or shared CACILM info)
2733
Number of videos 37
Number of Followers 23
Total Number of views 12,790
CACILM on Facebook Youtube

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8. Capacity building and sustainable access to knowledge /
Training on video-editing
- Regional training on video editing, Bishkek, February 2016

9. Knowledge exchange on technical packages /
COMMUNICATION MATERIALS
Video materials:
40 short films, of which 10
shown on Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan TV channels;
Video classes on climate
change and creation of compost;
CACILM.org website;
CACILM on FB, Twitter and
YouTube

10. Knowledge exchange on technical packages /
COMMUNICATION MATERIALS
Print materials:
26 recommendations
for farmers and
researchers in English,
Russian and local
languages

11. SLM knowledge base
• Knowledge synthesis: around 10 technologies
complemented
• Currently compiled 90 (75 technologies and 15
approaches)
• Sources: Institutes, WOCAT, projects,
indigenous knowledge
SLM Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan TOTAL
Approaches 2 2 8 0 3 15
Technologies 10 16 13 16 20 75
TOTAL 12 18 21 16 23 90

12. SLMknowledgebase-format

14. Agroeco-
system
Technology
package KAZ KRG TJK TKM UZB
Irrigated Raised bed
1. Almaty;
2. South
Kazakhstan
Chuy
valley
Central
Tajikistan
Ahal
province
Yakkabog
and Bayavut
districts
Mountain Agroforestry
Osh
province
Rasht
valley Planned
Rainfed
Conservation
agriculture
South
Kazakhstan
Chuy
province
Central
Tajikistan
Lebap
province
Kashkadarya
province
Rangeland
Pasture
improvement
Almaty
province
Osh
province
Sogd
province
Ahal
province
Farish
district
Demo-sites

15. SLM for demonstration - location

16.  Creation/generation
 Capture
 Storage
 Retrieval
 Enhancement
 Dissemination
Knowledge management

17. Wang et al. (2015)

18. Laser leveling
Residue retention
Raised-bed planting
Irrigation techniques
SLM Research

19. 19
Food legumes
Cropping geometry
Crop-livestock integration
Fodder crops
SLM Research

20.  Manual – (Ibragimov 2015) AquaCrop 4.0 with examples for Uzbekistan
conditions (UZ/RU)

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Precipitation,mm
month
Sumof Pobserved
Sumof Psimulated
SumofPcorrected
Component 1 – K-Synthesis
 Bias correction of downscaled CC data: KZ,
KG, TJ, UZ collected historical data from
meteo-stations near demo-sites. Teams
preparing analyses and report;

23. Training course “GIS based development of similarity maps to promote selected SLM
packages in Central Asia using National Data”
April 18-20, 2016. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

24. Similarity maps
Irrigated agroecosystem
Similarity
criteria
Land use Irrigated land
Slope, degree 0-5
Water availability/source Sufficient
Soil (texture), clay
content, %
10-75 physical
clay
Soil salinity, % to be clarified
Rainfed agroecosystem
Similarity
criteria
Precipitation 300-600
Slope, degree <7
Land use Cropland
Soil (texture), clay
content, %
20-75 physical
clay
Mountain Similarity criteria
Slope, degree >7
Precipitation >500
Altitude, m >800
Land use
exclude inconvinient
areas (rocks, gullies
etc.)
Soil depth, cm >50
Rangelands Similarity criteria
Land use rangelands, pasture
Slope, degree
Precipitation to be clarified
Degradation degree to be clarified
Livestock density
per ha to be clarified
Watering points/ha to be clarified
Identified criteria for each SLM package

25. Rainfed
Irrigated