Mongolia's mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the
subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a …

Global drylands host more than USD 1 trillion in resource extraction investments, which
serve to reconfigure communities and landscapes. In Mongolia's Gobi Desert mega-mining …

Today there is a disjuncture between migration flows that are complex, mixed and constantly
evolving and the emerging global migration governance paradigm that seeks to impose …

Evidence-based policy guidance necessary for addressing mixed outcomes of community-
based rangeland management (CBRM) is limited, dominated by case studies, and lacking …

Studies of mobile pastoralist livelihoods have shown that a variety of socio-technical
practices have been developed to achieve reliable outputs from livestock in variable arid …

Globally, rangelands face interacting pressures from climate, land-use, socio-economic and
political changes, all of which threaten herder livelihoods and grassland health. Given these …

In this article, I use absence as a lens to explore social change and masculinity in rural
Mongolia, with a focus on household splitting during winter months. Since the breakdown in …

As interest in women's roles in agriculture increases, research on women livestock-keepers
remains limited. Advances in feminist scholarship highlight farming women's dual roles in …

Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces. Understanding
these social, economic, and cultural transformations is important because it has major …

In this article, we draw upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Mongolia and China to
develop understandings of herd–herder (mal–malchin) relations further. We focus primarily …