Contents: Institutional change - From past to present, agriculture & politics in Uzbekistan - The local administrative level - The provincial level.
The Author: Kai Wegerich graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) in 2003. During his doctoral studies he worked as a research consultant for different international organisations on organisational aspects of water management. After having received his Ph.D. he was mainly working on the implementation of agricultural and water management reforms in Central Asia. Since 2004 he has been Assistant Professor for Irrigation and Development at the Wageningen University.