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National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods Azerbaijan
Reports & Research
September 2022
Azerbaijan

This country gender assessment (CGA) for the Republic of Azerbaijan was undertaken as part of FAO and national commitments to promote gender equality while integrating a gender perspective into its operations.

Azerbaijan: Systematic Country Diagnostic Update
Reports & Research
June 2022
Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijan Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) Update 2022 identifies the most critical challenges facing the government in the effort to achieve the country’s national goals and the twin goals of eradicating extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. It also identifies policy priorities to address these challenges within a changing economic and geopolitical environment.

BTI 2022 Country Report Azerbaijan
Reports & Research
May 2022
Azerbaijan

During the reporting period, the consolidation of authoritarian rule in Azerbaijan continued. Snap parliamentary elections in February 2020 did not meet international standards for free and fair competition. However, some notorious high-ranking state officials were fired, and corrupt local level administrators detained on corruption charges.

Doing Business in Azerbaijan
Reports & Research
May 2022
Azerbaijan

According to the Constitution adopted on 12 November 1995, Azerbaijan is a democratic, secular, unitary republic based on the rule of law. The country is governed by the president, who is directly elected for a seven-year term by popular vote. Azerbaijan’s vast oil reserves attract foreign investment into the country’s economy. Several major oil contracts have been signed since 1994.

Journal Articles & Books
October 2021
Armenia
Azerbaijan

On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan went to war with Armenia on a scale not seen since the ceasefire of 1994.

Azerbaijan Moving towards more diversified, resilient, and inclusive development
Journal Articles & Books
August 2020
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has set the course for the economy to reduce its dependence on oil by promoting new drivers of growth. This publication emphasizes the need for diversification, particularly in the agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. By 2025, under the Strategic Roads Maps of the Government of Azerbaijan, a more diversified economy should take shape led by these three sectors.

Peer-reviewed publication
August 2020
Azerbaijan
Georgia

Diversified livelihoods combining farming, livestock keeping and non-farm income are characteristic of many rural households worldwide. For the Central Asian and Caucasian region, livestock keeping is especially important in terms of land use and socio-cultural heritage.

Conference Papers & Reports
May 2020
Azerbaijan

The Republic of Azerbaijan implemented during the late 1990s a land reform, which distributed the state owned agricultural land to the rural population but also led to excessive land fragmentation and small farm sizes.

Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan
Reports & Research
February 2020
Azerbaijan

Overview of the State of Forests and Forest Management in Azerbaijan derives from the project on the state of forests in the Caucasus and Central Asia and presents the forest resources and the forest sector of Azerbaijan, including trends in, and pressures on forests.

Journal Articles & Books
May 2019
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Paraguay
Turkey

Agriculture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is diverse, and has great potential to revitalize the economy of the countries in the region via improved productivity (efficiency) and higher total yield for food, fodder and fibre crops. Conservation agriculture can rise to the major challenge of making sustainable intensification of production systems a reality.