The Swiss Cooperation in Mongolia joined hands through the Green Gold Animal Health Project with Mongolian partners, Ministries, government implementing organizations, herders, herders’ organizations and private sector stakeholders to contribute to responsible and sustainable management of Mongolian rangelands-“Green Gold” of Mongolia. After 17 years of journey of cooperation and collective effort, Swiss Cooperation in Mongolia is very pleased to share the main results and experiences of the Green Gold Animal Health Project. This time, we would like to present the results, lesson learned and experiences on the journey to develop and strengthen the national rangeland health monitoring and assessment system: “Mongolia is enabled to make a sound diagnosis of the national rangeland health and resilient carrying capacity”.

The agriculture sector is of great importance to the economy of Mongolia, and its share of national GDP of the country exceeds 12% as of 2020. In particular, the livestock and animal husbandry sector produces more than 80% of gross agricultural production and is the only source of income for more than 34% of all households.

Switzerland is helping Mongolia in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the health situation in Mongolia, and in response to the request for assistance made by the Government of Mongolia, the Swiss Humanitarian Aid has decided to support this country in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

"The HU" expressed to support the “Responsible Nomads” standard for sustainable nomadic livestock production and its e traceability system. The system was developed with the support from Green Gold and Animal Health Project of the Swiss Cooperation in Mongolia and Ministry of Food Agriculture and Light Industry and managed by the National Federation of PUGs of Herders.

NFPUG organized the training to develop 2019 Pastureland photo monitoring maps and integrate the results into a unified system. The training will allow participants to process 2019 Pasture Photomonitoring images in Sample Point software and identify pasture plants at the farm group level. The training was provided on how to enter digital data into the ALAMGAC Web system. Herders uploaded the 2019 news on the agency's server through the Web system. Through this training, the quality of photo monitor data processing was improved, and the ability to evaluate and report the results using pastureland change models was acquired.

Collective Code of Practices for Sustainable Nomadic Livestock Production has been approved as a National Standard in Mongolia

The Mongolian national federation of pasture user groups organized an online training on "Importance of livestock tax in livestock breeding and pasture management".