Improving climate change resilience in Tajikistan Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), Tajikistan Tajikistan’s Pyanj River Basin has always been a difficult place to live. For generations the hardy local people have scratched a living, based on subsistence agriculture, alongside the river once known as the Oxus. Descended from Persians – for which Tajik is the Persian word – they are among the poorest people in the poorest of the Central Asian states, where 92% of land is mountain and the rest is floodplain. In recent years, the effects of climate change have brought floods, landslides, rockfalls and violent winds that routinely destroy crops in the Pyanj River Basin. For communities where many of the men have left to work in Kazakhstan and Russia, such natural disasters take peo

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