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    相馬拓也, Andreas Buerkert, Eva Schlecht (2014) 西部モンゴル牧畜社会における遊牧民の生活水準と家畜の社会的利用, Tropentag 2014, [ポスター発表] 2014年9月17-19日,, プラハ, チェコ共和国. 　 Keywords: Animal Herding, Food security, Livestock, Nomadic Society, Western Mongolia, Torguud, Kazakh, Uriankhai Nomadic herders in Mongolia are facing ongoing climatic and socio-economic changes, but little is known how these affect their livelihood and risk management strategies. This study was conducted to fill this knowledge gap. Data collection consisted of 50 structured “face to face” interviews of individual households (HH) carried out in Khovd and Bayan ¨ Olgii Province, Western Mongolia. These were distributed across four settlements on high altitude summer pastures (> 2000m a.s.l.) which were visited during 24/06 — 20/08/2013. The four locations (Altztai Holoo, Sunkar Nuur, Hoshoot, and Dont-Temult) were mainly inhabited by the three ethnic groups of Kazakh, Torguud, and Uriankhai. Based on their total livestock possession (herd size), HHs were subdivided into large, medium and small livestock keepers (L, M, S). Herd size was >200 head for L, >100 — 200 head for M and <100 head for S. These differences were largely paralleled by ethnic divides whereby Torguud dominated the L stratum (70%) and had a higher living status as well as a more powerful socio-economic status than Kazakh and Uriankhai. The later made up for 90% of HHs in the S cluster. In 2012 a HH consumed on average 15.6 head of mostly sheep and goats (plus occasionally one calf), whereby L and M slaughtered 22.3 and 20.9 animals compared to only 13.1 slaughtered by S. Across all herds and species, an average of 78.3 animals were born in L herds in 2012, 47.5 in M and 15.2 in S herds. HHs of stratum S (67% of all HH) consumed 86% of their annual stock increase and might face severe problems of food security at times of crisis such as disease outbreaks or harsh winters. As a consequence of their tight living conditions, the social use of livestock for donation and exchange that used to firmly bind kinship and neighbour relationships is vanishing, especially among S households. Strategies are urgently needed that open up new livelihood options without compromising herders’ mobility and (food) culture.

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    相馬拓也, Andreas Buerkert, Eva Schlecht (2014) 西部モンゴル牧畜社会における遊牧民の生活水準と家畜の社会的利用, Tropentag 2014, [ポスター発表] 2014年9月17-19日,, プラハ, チェコ共和国. 　 Keywords: Animal Herding, Food security, Livestock, Nomadic Society, Western Mongolia, Torguud, Kazakh, Uriankhai Nomadic herders in Mongolia are facing ongoing climatic and socio-economic changes, but little is known how these affect their livelihood and risk management strategies. This study was conducted to fill this knowledge gap. Data collection consisted of 50 structured “face to face” interviews of individual households (HH) carried out in Khovd and Bayan ¨ Olgii Province, Western Mongolia. These were distributed across four settlements on high altitude summer pastures (> 2000m a.s.l.) which were visited during 24/06 — 20/08/2013. The four locations (Altztai Holoo, Sunkar Nuur, Hoshoot, and Dont-Temult) were mainly inhabited by the three ethnic groups of Kazakh, Torguud, and Uriankhai. Based on their total livestock possession (herd size), HHs were subdivided into large, medium and small livestock keepers (L, M, S). Herd size was >200 head for L, >100 — 200 head for M and <100 head for S. These differences were largely paralleled by ethnic divides whereby Torguud dominated the L stratum (70%) and had a higher living status as well as a more powerful socio-economic status than Kazakh and Uriankhai. The later made up for 90% of HHs in the S cluster. In 2012 a HH consumed on average 15.6 head of mostly sheep and goats (plus occasionally one calf), whereby L and M slaughtered 22.3 and 20.9 animals compared to only 13.1 slaughtered by S. Across all herds and species, an average of 78.3 animals were born in L herds in 2012, 47.5 in M and 15.2 in S herds. HHs of stratum S (67% of all HH) consumed 86% of their annual stock increase and might face severe problems of food security at times of crisis such as disease outbreaks or harsh winters. As a consequence of their tight living conditions, the social use of livestock for donation and exchange that used to firmly bind kinship and neighbour relationships is vanishing, especially among S households. Strategies are urgently needed that open up new livelihood options without compromising herders’ mobility and (food) culture.

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    相馬拓也, Andreas Buerkert, Eva Schlecht (2014) 西部モンゴル牧畜社会における遊牧民の生活水準と家畜の社会的利用, Tropentag 2014, [ポスター発表] 2014年9月17-19日,, プラハ, チェコ共和国. 　 Keywords: Animal Herding, Food security, Livestock, Nomadic Society, Western Mongolia, Torguud, Kazakh, Uriankhai Nomadic herders in Mongolia are facing ongoing climatic and socio-economic changes, but little is known how these affect their livelihood and risk management strategies. This study was conducted to fill this knowledge gap. Data collection consisted of 50 structured “face to face” interviews of individual households (HH) carried out in Khovd and Bayan ¨ Olgii Province, Western Mongolia. These were distributed across four settlements on high altitude summer pastures (> 2000m a.s.l.) which were visited during 24/06 — 20/08/2013. The four locations (Altztai Holoo, Sunkar Nuur, Hoshoot, and Dont-Temult) were mainly inhabited by the three ethnic groups of Kazakh, Torguud, and Uriankhai. Based on their total livestock possession (herd size), HHs were subdivided into large, medium and small livestock keepers (L, M, S). Herd size was >200 head for L, >100 — 200 head for M and <100 head for S. These differences were largely paralleled by ethnic divides whereby Torguud dominated the L stratum (70%) and had a higher living status as well as a more powerful socio-economic status than Kazakh and Uriankhai. The later made up for 90% of HHs in the S cluster. In 2012 a HH consumed on average 15.6 head of mostly sheep and goats (plus occasionally one calf), whereby L and M slaughtered 22.3 and 20.9 animals compared to only 13.1 slaughtered by S. Across all herds and species, an average of 78.3 animals were born in L herds in 2012, 47.5 in M and 15.2 in S herds. HHs of stratum S (67% of all HH) consumed 86% of their annual stock increase and might face severe problems of food security at times of crisis such as disease outbreaks or harsh winters. As a consequence of their tight living conditions, the social use of livestock for donation and exchange that used to firmly bind kinship and neighbour relationships is vanishing, especially among S households. Strategies are urgently needed that open up new livelihood options without compromising herders’ mobility and (food) culture.

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    Tropentag, September 17-19, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic

    Bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and


    decreasing resources
    Current Living Status and Social Use of Livestock in Nomadic
    Herders Communities in Western Mongolia
    Takuya Soma1 , Andreas Buerkert2 , Eva Schlecht1
    1

    University of Kassel / Georg-August-Universit


    at G
    ottingen, Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany
    2
    University of Kassel, Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany

    Abstract
    Nomadic herders in Mongolia are facing ongoing climatic and socio-economic changes,
    but little is known how these affect their livelihood and risk management strategies. This
    study was conducted to fill this knowledge gap.
    Data collection consisted of 50 structured face to face interviews of individual hou
    seholds (HH) carried out in Khovd and Bayan Olgii
    Province, Western Mongolia. These
    were distributed across four settlements on high altitude summer pastures (> 2000 m a.s.l.)
    which were visited during 24/06 20/08/2013.
    The four locations (Altztai Holoo, Sunkar Nuur, Hoshoot, and Dont-Temult) were mainly
    inhabited by the three ethnic groups of Kazakh, Torguud, and Uriankhai. Based on their
    total livestock possession (herd size), HHs were subdivided into large, medium and small
    livestock keepers (L, M, S). Herd size was >200 head for L, >100 200 head for M
    and <100 head for S. These differences were largely paralleled by ethnic divides whereby
    Torguud dominated the L stratum (70 %) and had a higher living status as well as a more
    powerful socio-economic status than Kazakh and Uriankhai. The later made up for 90 %
    of HHs in the S cluster. In 2012 a HH consumed on average 15.6 head of mostly sheep and
    goats (plus occasionally one calf), whereby L and M slaughtered 22.3 and 20.9 animals
    compared to only 13.1 slaughtered by S. Across all herds and species, an average of 78.3
    animals were born in L herds in 2012, 47.5 in M and 15.2 in S herds. HHs of stratum
    S (67 % of all HH) consumed 86 % of their annual stock increase and might face severe
    problems of food security at times of crisis such as disease outbreaks or harsh winters.
    As a consequence of their tight living conditions, the social use of livestock for donation
    and exchange that used to firmly bind kinship and neighbour relationships is vanishing,
    especially among S households.
    Strategies are urgently needed that open up new livelihood options without compromising herders mobility and (food) culture.

    Keywords: Food security, Livestock, Mongolia, Social customs

    Contact Address: Eva Schlecht, University of Kassel / Georg-August-Universit


    at G
    ottingen, Animal Husbandry in
    the Tropics and Subtropics, Steinstrae 19, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany, e-mail: tropanimals@uni-kassel.de

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