About 72 percent of Mongolia’s total territory of 1.56 million square kilometers is considered grazing land; ranging from desert to desert-steppe, steppe, forest-steppe, taiga, and high mountain which provide forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife and important watershed functions. Mongolia has one of the largest, intact, temperate rangeland ecosystems in the world and a nomadic heritage thousands of years old.

As part of the implementation of the Responsible Nomads Code of Practice, MNS 6891:2020, MNFPUG cooperated with Meatpack LLC conducted auditing and verification activities in 4 soum of Eastern Region and traced all the steps of the meat value chain from the herder’s household into the hands of the consumer.

Resilience-based Rangeland Management in Mongolia

Mongolian National Federation of Pasture User Groups of Herders has been working with Terre De Cashmere, South Korean company to introduce the “Responsible Nomads” standard-Code of Practice since 2022

NFPUG 는 2022년부터 미국의 Textile Exchange 비정부기구 및 대한민국 Terre De Cashmere와  Responsible Nomad 표준을 도입하기 위하여 협력하여 일하고 있습니다.

Khovd, Zavkhan, Dornod, and Sukhbaatar aimags between 2021 and 2028.

Deep gratitude is owed to Country Directors of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Mongolia: Mr. Markus Dubach, Mr. Felix Fellmann, Mr. Markus Waldvogel, and Ms. Gabriella Spirli for the leadership and untiring support for building the national capacity to safeguard the health of Mongolian rangelands

Mongolia is amongst the fewer nations that preserved nomadic livestock husbandry. Nevertheless, the changes in the social, political and economic systems of the country have led to a steady increase in the number of livestock following the transfer of livestock to private ownership and the shift to a free market system. As a result, decrease in the frequency and distances of seasonal migrations of herder families and herds, have increased the pressure on rangelands and accelerated damages