Competition and Benefit Sharing in the Ferghana Valley

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Pak ◽  
Kai Wegerich
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
Divide And Rule ◽  
Syr Darya

While there has been a regional and international focus on large reservoirs in Central Asia, smaller transboundary reservoirs within the Ferghana Valley have been overlooked. The valley is shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, three riparian countries of the upstream Syr Darya. Located within the valley are many small transboundary tributaries and reservoirs. An analysis of the initial proposals and documented negotiations for four of these reservoirs reveals a changing pattern of benefit sharing. These past approaches call into question the argument that the boundaries set by the Soviets did not matter, as well as the assumption that Moscow as a hegemon planned infrastructure in order to divide and rule Central Asia.

RISHTAN SCHOOL OF CERAMICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Akmal Marozikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In ◽  
National Style

Ceramics is an area that has a long history of making clay bowls, bowls, plates,pitchers, bowls, bowls, bowls, pots, pans, toys, building materials and much more.Pottery developed in Central Asia in the XII-XIII centuries. Rishtan school, one of the oldest cities in the Ferghana Valley, is one of the largest centers of glazed ceramics inCentral Asia. Rishtan ceramics and miniatures are widely recognized among the peoples of the world and are considered one of the oldest cities in the Ferghana Valley. The article discusses the popularity of Rishtan masters, their products made in the national style,and works of art unique to any region

scholarly journals Human and Natural Impacts on the Water Resources in the Syr Darya River Basin, Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Zou ◽  
Abuduwaili Jilili ◽  
Weili Duan ◽  
Philippe Maeyer ◽  
Tim de Voorde
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Discharge ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sharp Decline ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Effective Water ◽  
Syr Darya

Water resources are increasingly under stress in Central Asia because downstream countries are highly dependent on upstream countries. Water is essential for irrigation and is becoming scarcer due to climate change and human activities. Based on 20 hydrological stations, this study firstly analyzed the annual and seasonal spatial–temporal changes of the river discharges, precipitation, and temperature in the Syr Darya River Basin and then the possible relationships between these factors were detected. Finally, the potential reasons for the river discharge variations have been discussed. The results show that the river discharges in the upper stream of the basin had significantly risen from 1930 to 2006, mainly due to the increase in temperature (approximately 0.3 °C per decade), which accelerated the melting of glaciers, while it decreased in the middle and lower regions due to the rising irrigation. In the middle of the basin, the expansion of the construction land (128.83 km2/year) and agricultural land (66.68 km2/year) from 1992 to 2015 has significantly augmented the water consumption. The operations of reservoirs and irrigation canals significantly intercepted the river discharge from the upper streams, causing a sharp decline in the river discharges in the middle and lower reaches of the Syr Darya River in 1973. The outcomes obtained from this study allowed us to understand the changes in the river discharges and provided essential information for effective water resource management in the Syr Darya River Basin.

Broken Ties in the Ferghana Valley

2017 ◽  
Vol 116 (792) ◽  
pp. 285-287
Author(s):  
Marianne Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Border Town ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment

An anthropologist with long ties to a border town in Central Asia watched as nationalist sentiment turned what had been an informal boundary into a hard divide between erstwhile neighbors.

Climate change impacts on runoff in the Ferghana Valley (Central Asia)

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iuliia Radchenko ◽  
Yvonne Dernedde ◽  
Birgit Mannig ◽  
Hans-Georg Frede ◽  
Lutz Breuer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Ferghana Valley

The Ferghana Valley at the crossroads of world history: the rise of Khoqand, 1709–1822

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott C. Levi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
World History ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Ferghana Valley

AbstractThe Khanate of Khoqand emerged, flourished and collapsed during the era of Chinese and Russian imperial expansion into Central Asia. While eighteenth-century Central Asia has long been considered to have been an unimportant backwater ‘on the margins of world history’, this essay juxtaposes focused research in local primary sources with a world historical perspective in an effort to illuminate some of the ways in which the region remained interactively engaged with its neighbours and, through them, with historical processes unfolding across the globe. The essay argues that these interactions were substantial, and that they contributed to Khoqand’s emergence as a significant regional power and centre of Islamic cultural activity in pre-colonial Central Asia.

XI. The 'Power of Water' in a Divided Central Asia

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoly Krutov ◽  
Max Spoor
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
Interethnic Conflict ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Soviet Central Asia

AbstractIn the not-too-distant future, the former Soviet Central Asia could be confronted with resource-based conflicts or even, as some observers have suggested, with a "water war." Water is the scarce commodity in a region that is rich in oil, gas, and mineral resources. Most of the water comes from two rivers, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya. These feed the Aral Sea, previously the fourth largest inland fresh (actually brackish) water reservoir in the world. These rivers and their tributaries, together, form the Aral Sea basin. Since the 1960s, the Aral Sea has shrunk rapidly in surface area and in volume of water, representing "one of the world's worst ecological disasters." Increased demand for water for irrigation and hydroelectric power by the competing newly independent states, both upstream and downstream, is a potential source of interstate and even interethnic conflict. The latter could occur in the densely populated Ferghana Valley, where various countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan share common borders.

scholarly journals THE TEA ROAD: FROM CHINA TO UZBEKISTAN (7-15TH CENTURIES)

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4913-4924
Author(s):  
Mahfuza Bahriddinovna Mamatova
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Tang Dynasty ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
The People ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
The Tang Dynasty ◽  
Tea Drinking ◽  
Made In China

Five thousand years ago, the first tea was made in China. Only from the beginning of the Middle Ages people of neighboring countries of China recognized tea and until the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking was not widespread. Beginning of the 7th century tea brought Central Asia with the Tea Road. From this period he stretched from China to India. At the centre of this path was Central Asia, the ancient cities of Uzbekistan namely after Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent and the Ferghana Valley. It was the northeastern Tea Road that connected China with Central Asia and was much more ancient than other directions of this route. In the 7-15th centuries The Tea Road developed in different historical periods. During the Tang Dynasty in China, Sogdian merchants brought tea to Central Asia. During the Song Dynasty, it was traded by Central Asian merchants and opened their tea shops in China. The Samanid rulers were the patrons of the tea trade. Under the Ming and Timuridsempire, an intensive ambassadorial-diplomatic relationship between China and Central Asia was strengthened. During this period, among the various goods, the main article of Chinese exports was tea, which was exchanged for thoroughbred horses brought from Central Asia. Since the time of the Tang Dynasty, bilateral trade has been established with Central Asia, and as part of the Tea Road, there were several main and a number of experimental routes along which tea went to Central Asia. In these paths, there were customs points - cities that played an important role in China's trade and economic ties with Central Asia. Today, tea is considered a favourite drink of the peoples of Central Asia, including Uzbekistan. Green tea is imported to Uzbekistan from China and it has become a national drink for the people of Uzbekistan.

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