Tumee Altansukh from the Mongolian Pastoralist Alliance presented the work of the Mongolian Pastoralist Alliance at the Partner's Meeting of the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub on April 3, 2017 at FAO in Rome, Italy.

1. Pastoralist Assembly of Central Asia (PACA)
Mongolian Pastoralist Alliance
(MoPA/MANIP)
Mr Altansukh Tumee, Chairman of MoPA
FAO, Rome, Italy
3 April 2017
Pastoralist Knowledge Hub

2. Content
• Regional pastoral contexts and main challenges faced by pastoralists
within the region
• Strategies/activities carrying out to address these challenges
• Issues to face in achieving success? How could those issues be
overcome?
• What support would need to overcome those issues?
• What would be suggestions as potential strategies to address those
challenges?

3. Central Asia (PACA)
WEST CENTRAL ASIA CENTRAL ASIA INNER ASIA HIGH ASIA
COUNTRIES:
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Regions:
Russia: Altai, Tuva, Buryatia
China: Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, TAR, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu,
Yunnan
India: Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Ladakh
Pakistan: Gilgit-Baltistan
Nepal: Himalayan region

4. Governance

5. Mongolia:1,564,116 km2
▪ Population 3,1 million
▪ 8th largest in Asia
• 83,2% agricultural land
• 5,1% urban areas
• 1,4% water
• 8,2, forest
• 4,1% uneasy to use land
• 112-113 million ha natural pasture
land is constantly used
• 21 million ha degraded land

6. FAO PKH – Central Asian Meeting, 2015

7. IFAD/VSF – Asian Regional Consultation and
Farmers Forum, 2016

8. PACA and MoPA Advocacy
Internationally:
• Indigenous Terra Madre, Shillong, India, 2015
• Asian consultation with pastoralists and livestock breeders (Mongolia,
January-2016)
• Special Session on Pastoralists and Sixth Global Meeting of Farmers
Forum, IFAD, Rome, Italy, 2016
• UNEA 2 Assembly and Side Event, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016
• PKH Side events, 2016
• International Rangelands Congress, Canada, 2016
• Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) MSP, Panama, 2016
• International Symposium on Nutrition and Healthy Diets, FAO, 2016
• Salone del Gusto 2016, Italy, 2016
• Central Asian seminars (Xinjian, China), 2016
Nationally:
• Young Herders – EcoBusiness, Mongolia, 2016
• Provincial and Country Pastoralists Forums

9. 1. Increase food supply
2. Produce internationally recognized foods
3. Connecting smallholders to markets
4. Develop models nationally and regionally
5. Achieve in food security and poverty
reduction
6. Better cooperation between countries
Why MoPA?

10. Main challenges faced by pastoralists
within the region
• High number of livestock, low productivity
• Pastureland is taken over by mining
• Climate change
• Pasture degradation – fast intensity, lack of water, soil,
sudden rainfall, cold winter-drought
• Transboundary animal health issue (PPR, Sheep Pox,
FMD, brucellosis)
• Pastoralists Health at risk
• Lack of market access
• Food security and safety (healthy and safe food – lab
assured)

11. Increased # of livestock in 5 types, about 60 million heads
3,295.3
3,780.4
22,592.9
24,592.9
368.0
3
12
1.5
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0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Экспортын өсөлт, %

12. Raw material Production Processing
Fodder,
hay, plants
Water
Salt,
marsh
Meat
Milk
Wool
Cashmere
Leather,
fibre
Fuel
Livestock – live production

13. Climate change
▪ In 1905 photo by Sapojnikov ▪ In Sep, 2009 photo by G.Davaa
In Altai Mountains

14. Strategies/activities carrying out to
address these challenges
• Value chains development
• Linking producer groups to national processing factories -
direct supply of livestock raw materials
• Building good relationships with Government (GASL,
MASL, IYRP, etc)
• Building effective partnership with FAO globally and
nationally
• Timely communication and information sharing with
pastoralist members
• By herders for herders activities – good practices
(Cooperative, Business Planning, Marketing)

15. Key strategy of pastoralism
People
Nomadic,
transhumant, agro-
pastoralists
Pasture
range land
Livestock
Extensive
livestock
production
Mobility
Traditional knowledge
Flexibility
Adaptation
Mutual support
Diversification
Conservation
Ecosystem services
Resilience
Rangeland biodiversity
Well-being of livestock
Mobile culture

16. Issues to face in achieving success?
How could those issues be overcome?
• Sustainable Livestock Strategy – model at regional
and national level – MASL/Mongolian Agenda for
Sustainable Livestock
• Animal health
• Traceability system
• From volume to quality strategy
• Knowledge and information for pastoralists
• Value of pastoralists
• Mobile culture and tradition
• Land tenure issues
• Free-range animal products for export market

17. INTENSIVE LIVESTOCK
Sustainable manure
management
Poultry and swine
Field pea for poultry with
wheat and chicken manure
* reduce carbon and
footprint
EXTENSIVE LIVESTOCK
Agroecology and value chain
approach
Sheep, goat, camel, cow, yak,
horse and reindeer
* Agroecological product
based on nature, rangeland
fed animals, branding, value
chains
MONGOLIAN AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK

18. Support needed
• Institutional capacity of Pastoralist
organization – MoPA
• Resource allocation on the addressed issues
(technical and financial)
• Information and experience sharing
• Activities on improving value of pastoralists
• Evidence and data collection of pastoralists
and pastoralism

19. Potential strategies
• Close collaboration of Pastoralist Networks
like MoPA with Government, FAO and Partners
• National Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
• Private sector involvement – local resource –
value chain development – market access
• Climate Smart Agriculture
• Policy change

20. Message to the Partners
Despite distance, let`s bring the issues, go
together with one goal, let`s not wait for
tomorrow but let`s do it today!
One voice, one view and one direction!

21. Partners

22. Анхаарал тавьсанд баярлалаа!