Nomadism in Mongolia
The - best place - last
Dec 19th 2002 | SUMBER, DORNOD
>From The Economist print edition
As Mongolia shows, nomadic pastoralism and private land just don't mix
IT IS what is underfoot that counts. Very roughly, between the Ural mountains in the west and the Amur river on the Sino-Russian border, and between the latitudes of Lake Baikal in the north and the Chang Tang plateau of Tibet to the south, lies a land too arid usually for forest or even field. Some of it is mountain and much is desert, but most of it is steppe: the vast grasslands of Inner Asia.
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