Poverty, sustainability and livelihood strategies of herder households in mongolia

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dc.contributor.advisorPető, Károly
dc.contributor.authorGanchimeg, Gombodorj
dc.contributor.departmentIhrig Károly gazdálkodás- és szervezéstudományok doktori iskolahu
dc.contributor.submitterdepDebreceni Egyetem::Gazdaságtudományi Kar
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-27T16:43:27Z
dc.date.available2023-09-27T16:43:27Z
dc.date.defended2023-10-13
dc.date.issued2023hu
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation is thoroughly done within the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) conceptual framework. The research covered a number of essential topics of SLF, namely the impact of Covid-19; livelihood assets; government policy on meat exporting and its impact on herders' livelihoods; and contribution of non-livestock income - state pensions and welfare; livelihood strategies; and poverty of herder households. The Introduction explains the research background and herder households' problems. The problem of increased livestock numbers leading to overgrazing issues regarding pasture carrying capacity potential is justified. Currently, herder households have limited livelihood strategy (LS) options and few income sources. The research objective is to contribute to the literature by examining the current Mongolian herder households' livelihood strategies and possible interventions to cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and improve livelihood skills, capabilities, and assets. The sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) and literature review chapter started a systematic literature review and formulated a research gap on sustainable rural livelihood in Mongolia. The materials and methods chapter explains the study's data collection. The two sets of primary data were used to analyse livelihood strategies of herder households, asset situation, poverty, financial literacy and pension planning and the impacts of Covid-19. Moreover, two sets of secondary data were used to analyse the agriculture sector's contributions to Mongolia's economic growth and meat export potential and impact on herder households. The research findings chapter briefly describes Mongolian nomadic herder households' characteristics, current situation, and problems. An economic growth model was applied to analyse the agriculture sector's importance and impact compared to the mining sector. The result shows that the mining sector is vital to the economy and does not harm the development of the agriculture sector. Covid-19 impact on household livelihoods was studied by comparing urban and rural households. Rural households were less vulnerable to Covid-19 negative influences. A meat export study result shows that the government policy for promoting meat export does not impact herders' household livelihood. According to the livelihood assets and livelihood strategies, herder households were classified into four livelihood strategies. Assets that prompt the choice of four different livelihood strategies were analysed using the SUR model. The most dominant strategy was a livestock-based livelihood strategy, as LS1. A state pension and welfare-based livelihood strategy LS2 contributes to all livelihood strategies. Households that make up their household income from natural resources, e.g. hunting, collecting fruit, and wood harvesting, belong to LS4. LS2 wage income and LS3 state pension and welfare mixed strategies are the most appropriate and sustainable strategies among the four livelihood strategies of herder households in Mongolia. Herder households' participation in social insurance and herders' financial literacy study's main findings are that when herders are educated and well-informed, they can catch the possibilities to increase their income and sustain their livelihood. The conclusions and recommendations chapter provides recommendations for improving the livelihood of herder households in Mongolia, focusing on poor herders' households. Study limitations and future research directions are identified in this chapter. The final chapter presented the main conclusions of the research and extended to introduce the new contribution of the research work to the scientific field. This research contributed to the livelihood of nomadic herder households in Mongolia according to the SLF methodology in a more comprehensive way. The research highlights a possible way of increasing the herders' income without increasing the number of animals.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/359271
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectSustainable Livelihood Framework
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subject.disciplineGazdálkodás- és szervezéstudományokhu
dc.subject.sciencefieldTársadalomtudományokhu
dc.titlePoverty, sustainability and livelihood strategies of herder households in mongolia
dc.title.translatedPoverty, sustainability and livelihood strategies of herder households in Mongolia
dc.typePhD, doktori értekezéshu
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