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Pastoral Ecosystem Management

Project completed

The two main areas Green Gold is pursuing are the transformation of open access to pastureland into a controlled management system led by Pasture-User Groups and accelerated livestock marketing to reduce the stocking rate. In order to address these issues, Green Gold focuses on the following goal: To enable communities of herders to preserve, protect and nurture enduring pasture ecosystems to underpin sustainable livelihoods. Phase III is aimed at achieving four outcomes. Outcome 1 will continue with research to identify strategies and technologies for restoring pastures and preventing their decline, research education, improve knowledge sharing, and harmonise scientific standards. Outcome 2 will continue to advocate for policy and legislation to protect pastures while working to improve the implementation and coordination capabilities of the government and development partners. Outcome 3 will focus on scaling up the herder collective-action model to limit the open-access issue in pastureland use to more soums. Outcome 4 will seek to improve livestock productivity and marketing by closely cooperating with the Livestock Project and the Marketing Opportunities for Rural Entrepreneurs Project, both of which are supported by SOC. A state agreement between SDC and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry

Country/region	Topic	Period	Budget
Mongolia	Agriculture & food security Climate change and environment Agricultural research Agriculture value-chain development (til 2016) Biosphere protection	01.01.2010 - 31.12.2012	CHF 6’100’000

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner Private sector Swiss Academic and Research Institution Agroscope Swiss Private Sector
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF 6’100’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 6’025’081
Project phases	Phase 4 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2016 (Completed) Phase 3 01.01.2010 - 31.12.2012 (Completed)

Further technical details

Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	AGRICULTURE OTHER MULTISECTOR GENERAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Agricultural research Rural development Biosphere protection
Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
Finance type	Aid grant
Aid Type	Project and programme contribution
Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
Project number	7F03461