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