MNFPUG
Sustainable Cashmere Forum

Our Pastor User Groups (PUGs)'s leaders yearly national meeting, to discuss trainings to Sustainable Herding, results achieved and new strategies.

Images: courtesy of MNFPUG & Swiss Cooperation to Development SDC

A brief foreward

Reflecting Effective and Rational Use, Research and Protection of this Fragile Natural Resource, in Land Management Policy, Planning, Implementation and evaluation at all levels, is the basis for the development of Sustainable & Animal-friendly Pastoral Animal Husbandry, while protecting precious Mongolian Rangeland.

MNFPUG Union is the most important Social organization in Mongolia, representing 1/3 of total Mongolian Population, and 70% of Rural Nomadic Households.

Disseminating the Pastor User Groups (PUGs) approch and Responsible Nomads Code of Best Herding Practice (RN CoP) is one of MNFPUG's key focus to support Nomadic Herders' Cashmere sector.

MFPUG Sustainable Cashmere Forum is the yearly venue where we train since 2017 our PUGs Leader to Sustainability, openly sharing with them and the public results achieved, to jointly discuss constraints and actions to enforce.

MNFPUG Sustainable Cashmere Forum

Yearly trainings' main topics

REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

"The land is the soul of Mongolia” ancient mongolian quote. Responsible Nomads Code of Best Herding Practice” has been established by Swiss SDC Cooperation in 2011, and it’s the only standard for Sustainable Cashmere officially approved by the Mongolian Government ...

SECURE HERDER LIVELIHOODS

Nomadic herders have been grazing Cashmere goats on Mongolia’s rangelands for at least over 4500 years, and they now produce about 40% of global worldwide Cashmere fiber. By granting herders a premium price for their certified “Sustainable Cashmere” we build their economic ...

SECURE
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IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE

Ensuring animal health and well-being is crucial to cashmere fiber’s quality, producers’ prosperity and their consequent way of life. In Mongolia, herders practice millenary old pastoral herding methods and live alongside their animals, accompanying them to their ...

FAIR TRADE & SUSTAINABLE CHAIN OF SUPPLY

“Mongolian National Federation of Pasture User Groups of Herders” Union (MNFPUG) represents 70% of Mongolian Cashmere Herders and Cooperatives which handle about 28% of the worldwide global production of Cashmere fiber. “Responsible ...