Kazakhstan-2050 Strategy.

This multi-sectoral policy document establishes, inter alia, the following challenges to face: (a) the threat to global food security; (b) acute water shortage; and (c) exhaustibility of natural resources. The high rate of growth of the world's population is sharply exacerbating the food problem. Already today, tens of millions of people in the world are hungry, about a billion people are permanently food insecure. Without revolutionary changes in food production, these terrible numbers will only grow. For Kazakhstan, in this challenge lies enormous opportunity. The country is already among the largest exporters of cereals. It has vast organic areas and can produce organic food. The country is perfectly capable of making a qualitative leap in agricultural production. To do this, it needs a new kind of government thinking. The problem of water supply is acute in the country as well. It is not enough of high-quality potable water. A number of regions are in dire need of it. There is also a geopolitical aspect to this problem. Already now the country is faced with a serious question of transboundary river water use. Despite the complexity of this issue, it must not become politicized. The era of the hydrocarbon economy is gradually coming to an end. A new era is coming in which human activity will be based not only and not so much on oil and gas, but on renewable energy sources. Kazakhstan is a key element of global energy security. The country, with its large world-class oil and gas reserves, will not deviate one step from its policy of reliable strategic partnership and mutually beneficial international cooperation in the energy sphere. By 2050, alternative and renewable forms of energy should account for at least half of the country's total energy consumption.
In order to become a leader in the global food market and increase agricultural production, the country needs to: (a) increase the area under crops; (b) ensure a significant increase in crop yield, primarily through the introduction of new technologies; (c) create national competitive brands with an emphasis on environmental friendliness; and (d) become a global player in environmentally friendly production. The result of the adopted measures must be a 5-fold increase in the share of agricultural production in the country's GDP by 2050. It will be one of the priorities to introduce the most advanced technologies for the extraction and rational use of groundwater, the reserves of which are significant in the country. In the agro-industrial sector, to pass to water-saving technologies.