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The food, energy and water nexus in Central Asia: Tajikistan

14/10/2008 By Matteo Fumagalli

Most of the spotlight on Central Asia continues to be on its potential role in guaranteeing Europe’s energy security by helping to diversify its energy supplies.

This legitimate - although increasingly exclusive - focus risks overshadowing one of the most urgent issues that the region’s populations face: food security. Food security in Central Asia is not to be understood as a stand-alone challenge.

The current food crisis in the region needs to be situated within the broader nexus that encompasses food, water and, indeed, energy (gas and oil). Integrating food security as a subject into both the EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Water Initiatives will be a helpful contribution to the EU’s stance on providing assistance to Central Asia.

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Keywords

European Union Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Security Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Bio author: Matteo Fumagalli

Matteo Fumagalli is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University (CEU), Budapest and Honorary Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh.