Policy alternatives for livestock development in Mongolia /PALD/

This is a Research and training project. This report is organised as follows. Section 2 explains the methodology used in the fieldwork. Section 3 outlines the evolution of Mongolian pastoral institutions in general, emphasising elements of continuity as well as change between three distirict historical periods. Recent date are included to bring this up to date as far as possible to mid 1992. Section 4 provides an overview of changing pastoral land tenure arrangements over the three historical periods, and their environmental consequences. Sections 5 and 6 respectively detail the results and analysis of data from the two sample sites/ Tariat district of Arkhangai aimag. representing the Gove desertsteppe zone/ on local pastoral pastoral institutions and the contrasting patterns of pastoral mobility and flexibility in response to ecological risk that are found to characterise the two regions.