Contents: Anna-Katharina Hornidge/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Conrad Schetter: Introduction: Independence, Transformation and the Search for a Future in Agriculture – Kristof Van Assche/Anna-Katharina Hornidge/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Hafiz Boboyorov: Epistemic Cultures in Transition: Agricultural Expertise Development in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia – Jeanne Féaux de la Croix: Foot Soldiers of Development? The Role of Kyrgyzstani in Agricultural Knowledge Transfer – Lena Fey: Which Knowledge, Which Agriculture? Local Farmers and Agricultural Development in Georgia – Anja Katharina Salzer: Knowledge for Sustainability - Cultural Capital of Ethnic Minorities in High Mountain Areas of the South Caucasus – Filippo de Danieli/Anastasiya Shtaltovna: Competition Within the State, With the State and Beyond the State: Agricultural Extension in Tajikistan and the Struggles of Market Formation – Tim Röing: Creating Business Mentalities: Knowledge and Rural Development in Georgia from a Discursive Perspective – Irna Hofman: More Foreign than Other Foreigners: On Discourse and Adoption - the Contradiction of Astonishment and Fear of Chinese Farm Practices in Tajikistan – Kristof Van Assche/Anastasiya Shtaltovna/Anna-Katharina Hornidge: Local Knowledge and Expert Knowledge in Rural Transition: Georgian Wine Production – Nodir Djanibekov: Agricultural Organization and the Role of Contractual Structures in Knowledge Flows in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan – Makhmud Shaumarov/Regine Birner: Scientific Knowledge of Dryland Pastoral System Development in Uzbekistan – Hafiz Boboyorov: Constraints and Concerns for Farming and Cropping Types and Strategies in Southern Tajikistan – Andreas Mandler: Investments in Agriculture in Northern Tajikistan: Considering the Farm – Wibke Crewett: «There is a New Law?» Experiences from the Implementation of a Pasture Governance Reform in Kyrgyzstan – Kristof Van Assche: Afterword: Expertise and Rural Development after the Soviets.