The law on reducing the negative effects of climate change on traditional animal husbandry has been approved, and a timely and important goal has been put forward to ensure the sustainable development of animal husbandry through the power of herders’ cooperatives. There is an expectation that this goal will be implemented in a short period of time with low risk and effectively, and will not undermine the confidence of herders. The main risk is an attempt to solve the complex objectives of cooperative development in a short period of time without sound analyses and preparation. The risk of such a
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The impact of sand and dust storms on livestock herding was assessed
A sand and dust storm (SDS) contingency planning process was implemented for Mongolia as a case study in the context of an FAO-led interregional project in 2021-2022. The project also supported SDS contingency planning for agriculture in Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Mongolian country component of the project focused on livestock herding the cropping sector in Mongolia is relatively small (cropland occupies only 0.6 percent of Mongolia’s territory), and most crop fields in Mongolia are located in the north, which is less affected by SDS. Two rural soums1 (Saint- sagaan soum of Dundgobi province and Zamyn-Uud soum
Read moreProject herder groups have got trans-boundary disease-free status
CPR is implementing ADB TA 9840 project ‘Cooperative-based sustainable agricultural production’ under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry. For the first time in Mongolia, project herder groups have got the disease free status from major trans-boundary diseases that hinder meat exports in the Tumentsogt soum of Sukhbaatar aimag with long records of FMD. Purpose: •Pilot ways to control animal movements and disease spread by promoting herders’ participation and interest Incentive mechanisms used: •Use formal pastureland use boundaries of herder groups who established agreements with soum Governor •Use the effective rules and standards for examining and declaring disease free
Read moreENSURE project has delivered the tangible results
It was commonly acknowledged that the enormously increased herd size and resulting overgrazing is the major problem lying behind not only declining livestock productivity and persisting rural poverty but also increasing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in Mongolia. Controlling animal numbers proved to be a hard task as traditionally herders see their livestock as a walking bank, a measure of social status and security. The government’s policy target to reduce the herd size from 43 m in 2008 to 35 m in 2015 under the Mongol Livestock national program has failed and Mongolia counted the highest ever livestock number in
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