Countries are spending too little to restore degraded land even as the economic cost of doing nothing climbs towards $1 trillion a year, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned at a major UN land conference in Mongolia.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 24 (IPS) - For pastoralists in Arvaikheer -- a village in Mongolia's dry central plains -- rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether families .. ...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 17 (IPS) - After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with stories from pastoralists whose livelihoods are increasingly threatened by drought, degraded land and shrinking ...
Fire has always be part of life on the grasslands, but has grown worse due to rising temperatures and severe droughts. In response, people have turned to their nomadic heritage to help tackle the blazes ...