STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN RURAL UZBEKISTAN: SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY RESULTS (A CASE STUDY OF THE FERGANA VALLEY)

This article aims to quantitatively analyze the environmental vulnerability and policy awareness of rural women in the Fergana Valley amidst climate change. The sociological survey results (N=51) revealed that 60.8% of rural women independently manage agricultural plots due to male out-migration; however, 100% of them lack full functional awareness of state "green" subsidies. The findings empirically prove a profound "policy evaporation" in climate finance implementation and highlight that women disproportionately suffer from discriminatory water distribution (52.9%) favoring large-scale commercial farms. Furthermore, the study confirms the prevalence of a "pooled household budget" model (47.1%) in financial decision-making, challenging the applicability of the Western "gender pay gap" metric.

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