Green Gold - Sustainable Rangeland Management

The project objective is to promote collective actions for sustainable rangeland management and improving herders’ access to markets and knowledge.

Outcome 1:

Collective action for sustainable rangeland management: Pasture User Groups (PUG’s) promote at the herder’s level sustainable pasture management and economic development (f/m).

Outcome 2: Applied agricultural research that produce results for the practitioners: Science based understanding of Range Management issues enhances scope for sustainable range management at all levels.

Outcome 3: Agricultural extension service to provide practicable knowledge for the herders: The Agricultural Extension Service delivers useful services (knowledge and services) to all herders (f/m). Improved rangeland management, agricultural production and marketing are supported through demand-driven, participatory research and extension programs delivered in partnership with PUGs at the soum level.

Outcome 4: Marketing access by linking Yak herders to processing companies. Increased income of yak herders through quality improvement, technology, product development and marketing in the animal fibre sector.

Areas of Intervention

The project will work in the four areas targeted by the outcomes, and in each area will support knowledge creation through research, dissemination of knowledge through demand-led extension approaches, and support to higher level institutions and policies 

Partnerships: Aimag level Federations of APUGs will be key partners for further strengthening community-based institutions. Applied rangeland research will continue to strengthen the ability of NAMEM to conduct science-based nationwide rangeland monitoring, and will work with ALAGC to strengthen the legal status of PUGs’ rangeland use agreements. In developing demand-led extension approaches, the project will work with NAEC and national applied research institutes, and will support PUGs and APUGs to ensure investment by local governments in herders’ priorities. The main partners for marketing activities will be national industry associations (yak, wool), herder cooperatives linked to PUGs, and private businesses in the animal fibre sectors.