Biophysical variability and politico-economic singularity: Responses of livestock numbers in South Mongolian nomadic pastoralism

Engler, John; Wesche, Karsten; Kaczensky, Petra; Dhakal, Prabesh; Chuluunkhuyag, Oyundari; Wehrden, Henrik von

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107073

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“…Due to the numerous risks that Mongolia experiences, especially flooding, drought, winds, Measuring the Poverty of Herder Households in Mongolia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1005305 storms, earthquakes and forest fires [10], herders' livelihoods are highly dependent on natural threats. The last big dzud 1 happened in 2010 and 2019 and enormously impacted livestock numbers and household livelihoods, and herders lost 15 million animals [12][13][14][15]. Pasture and water are common pool resources in rural Mongolia.…”

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Measuring the Poverty of Herder Households in Mongolia

Gombodorj,

Pető

2024

Sustainable Development

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Mongolia faces difficulties in eradicating rural poverty, the same as other developing countries in the World. The selection of appropriate measurement is an essential prior step with regard to the complexity of poverty types and specifications. The most widely used poverty measuring methods are Income/cost Per Capita (IPC) per day and multidimensional poverty index (MPI). In the case of nomadic herder households in Mongolia, a livestock number is used as a proxy indicator to measure livelihood and poverty. Considering that, a herder household with less than 200 animals is considered poor, in general principle. This study uses a survey of 350 herder households, divided into three livelihood groups based on the number of livestock following the World Bank methodology; three groups are namely poor, lower wealthy and wealthy herder households. The livelihood of households was measured using IPC and MPI-3 methods, and the study results suggest that the MPI-3 method is not entirely appropriate to measure the herder household’s poverty and needs to adjust and add some indicators. According to their difference, part-time and periodic herders should be identified separately from full-time herders regarding measuring and studying livelihood and poverty levels.

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“…The large number of livestock and unequal distribution of herd size lead to environmental deterioration. Specifically, rangeland degradation ranges from 9 to 90% [22] and 38% of already degraded pasture will likely take more than 10 years to restore [14,22]. Poor herder households contribute more to pasture degradation [23].…”

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Measuring the Poverty of Herder Households in Mongolia

Gombodorj,

Pető

2024

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E-Commerce Participation, Subjective Norms and Grassland Utilization Pressure: An Empirical Evidence of Herdsmen in Inner Mongolia, China

Tian,

2024

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The general requirements of China’s rural revitalization strategy are industrial prosperity, ecological livability and rich life. However, the traditional livestock breeding model has struggled to balance the dual requirements of production development and ecological protection, and it is urgent to inject new impetus and explore new development paths. At present, e-commerce has become a bridge between pastoral areas and cities, herdsmen and consumers. E-commerce participation is not only an important starting point for herdsmen to increase the added value and profit space of livestock products, but also an effective way to change the original breeding behavior based on the premise of destroying grassland. Therefore, this paper presents an in-depth study on the issue of e-commerce enabling grassland ecological restoration, aiming to provide more scientific and effective guidance for e-commerce to be used to achieve a win–win situation in economy and ecology. Therefore, based on the data of 271 herdsmen in pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia, we used the OLS model and the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method to identify the direct impact of herdsmen’s e-commerce participation on grassland utilization pressure. The empirical results show that e-commerce participation can significantly decrease the grassland utilization pressure. The conclusion was still valid after alleviating endogeneity and conducting a robustness test. The results of a mechanism analysis suggest that the reduction effect of e-commerce participation on grassland utilization pressure is mainly due to price incentive, reputation incentive and place identity. Subjective norms can strengthen the inhibitory effect of e-commerce participation on grassland utilization pressure. Furthermore, a heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that e-commerce participation has a better, decreased impact on the grassland utilization pressure on the banners of China’s rural e-commerce demonstration county program. Under a counterfactual assumption, if herdsmen who can participate in e-commerce choose not to do this, their grassland utilization pressure will increase.

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Biophysical variability and politico-economic singularity: Responses of livestock numbers in South Mongolian nomadic pastoralism

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Measuring the Poverty of Herder Households in Mongolia

Measuring the Poverty of Herder Households in Mongolia

E-Commerce Participation, Subjective Norms and Grassland Utilization Pressure: An Empirical Evidence of Herdsmen in Inner Mongolia, China

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