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Uzbekistan: Outdated Agriculture

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Humanitarian Response

Joshua Foust reports [1] that Uzbekistan’s embassy in London has angrily denounced the stories that children are being used (or forced) to pick cotton, and says that the legacy of authoritarianism – inefficiency, environmental disaster, and the abuse of the innocent – seriously hampers the country's development.