Mongolian Economy and Finance

Daashka and his brother tear across the Mongolian steppe on a motorbike in a desperate search for somewhere to graze their herds.

When the world adopted the newest climate agreement during the United Nations climate change conference — or COP21 — in Paris, France, last December, an urgent warning was sounded: The effects of climate change will only worsen if nothing is done to address the problem.

ULZIIT, Mongolia (AP) — The Mongolian herder gazed out of his felt tent at the half-eaten carcass of what was his riding horse, now lying in blood-stained snow and being devoured by hungry dogs.

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Across the Mongolian plains, livestock are succumbing to a brutal winter, bringing economic struggle and ruin to the country’s agrarian base, which constitutes one-fifth of its gross domestic product.

By Eileen Jenkins Your dog may be able to catch a Frisbee, but can it preserve an ageless culture in the wilds of Mongolia?

Mongolia, a country of rugged, windswept expanses, is home to three million people and 50 million horses, camels, sheep and cattle.

No, that’s not a typo. It’s a rather dramatic weather event.

Balchig Baljinnyam, a small-time farmer in central Mongolia, is busy building a shelter for his dairy cows ahead of what is expected to be the most brutal winter in years. A summer drought has already cut traditional sources of fodder for his herd.

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If Mongolia can export cashmere as an end product, we can earn benefits of 1.9 to 2.9 trillion MNT every year, say specialists.

The overgrazing of pasture in Mongolia ( Treasure of the Gobi desert , G2, 21 April) was not brought about by the removal of the Soviet restraint on herd size but by Mongolia following the proposals of the IMF and World Bank.

ULAN BATOR, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- An outbreak of highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Sukhbaatar province in eastern Mongolia has been confirmed by the Mongolian State Central Veterinary Laboratory, local media reported.

MONGOLIA - Pig-raising farms will be created in Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon aimags in this year.

At the end of 2013, the livestock population in Mongolia reached over 45 million with a 10.2 percent annual increase, according to the National Statistical Office of Mongolia (NSOM)’s preliminary report of Livestock Census-2013 released on December 31, 2013.

Sas Carey is a registered nurse and holistic healer in Middlebury. For the last 19 years she’s been spending part of the year in Mongolia, working with nomadic herders on health care issues.

A Japanese researcher has turned to the nomads of Mongolia to help her document the extent of radioactive contamination in the landlocked Asian nation.

Sandwiched between China and Russia, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country on the planet, with just 3 million people. But it’s also home to 48 million livestock.

The 8th Camel Festival in the Gobi Desert will take place in Bayantooroi village in Tsogt sum, Govi-Altai aimag on November 9th and 10th, 2013.

When Loyola University New Orleans senior music industry studies major Dimitri Staszewski began his academic career four years ago, he never imagined he would travel 7,000 miles across the globe on a quest to document the changing musical traditions of Mongolian herders.