land reform
“Despite the fact that land availability is a significant factor in improvement of living standards among rural population, it nevertheless could not eradicate poverty in regions. Such obstacles as remoteness of a land plot from the owners’ residence address, lack of initial capital, and no advisory and training organisations that would teach how to effectively use the resource, do not allow the people to use it to the full and derive maximum profit,” analyst Asylgul Kanatbekova (Bishkek) wrote in her article for CABAR.asia. (more…)
“Since the problems have been identified, but not resolved, the poor and landless will become even poorer, and the latifundists, in the absence of political will on the part of the country’s leadership, will retain their positions and continue to put their interests above public interests”, – notes in an article written for the analytical portal CABAR.asia, human rights activist Galym Ageleuov, director of the Kazakhstani public fund “Liberty” (Almaty, Kazakhstan).