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Pastoral Institutions, Land Tenure and Land Policy Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia

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dc.contributor.author Mearns, Robin en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T15:06:57Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T15:06:57Z
dc.date.issued 1993 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3627
dc.description.abstract "In Mongolia, as in most other pastoral societies, customary land tenure arrangements have evolved at the local level to regulate herders1 access to pasture land. These institutional arrangements are secured through neighbourhood-level groups known generically as neg nutgiinhan ('people of one place'). There are regional variants, differing in scale and usually bounded by topography or limiting ecological factors, including neg jalgynhan ('people of one valley') in the Hangai forest/ mountain steppe zone, or neg usniihan ('people using one water source') in the Gobi desert-steppe zone. Group members are often, but not necessarily, consanguineal or affinal relatives. Like the khot ail (the basic herding camp of several cooperating households), neighbourhood-level customary institutions appear to be re-emerging in contemporary Mongolia in response to the break-up of the pastoral collectives and other economic reforms. This report analyses the characteristics of a sample of local pastoral institutions in two districts representing contrasting ecological zones (Hangai forest/mountain steppe zone, Gobi desert-steppe zone), in terms of size, age composition, membership, wealth differentiation and patterns of pastoral mobility and land tenure." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries PALD Research Report no. 3 en_US
dc.subject pastoralism en_US
dc.subject grazing en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject indigenous institutions en_US
dc.title Pastoral Institutions, Land Tenure and Land Policy Reform in Post-Socialist Mongolia en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries Policy Alternatives for Livestock Development in Mongolia (PALD), Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Mongolia en_US
dc.subject.sector Grazing en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US


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