Mongolia: Herders Caught Between Cashmere and Climate Change - EurasiaNet

Published on: Wednesday 06 June 2012

EurasiaNetMongolia: Herders Caught Between Cashmere and Climate ChangeEurasiaNetMongolia is the world's second largest cashmere producer after China. Although the wool brings around $180 million annually into the country, raising more cashmere sheep has led to overgrazing, pastureland degradation, and desertification. (Photos ...and more »