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Deteriorating from year to year, Mongolian pastoralists are being pushed to the city

Nomadic herders from Mongolia are being forced to abandon their traditional way of life and migrate to cities due to the advance of desertification in the Mongolian steppes. The degradation of grazing lands is making it increasingly difficult to feed livestock, forcing these communities to urbanize. This phenomenon, described as a progressive deterioration from year to year, generates new social and economic problems in the urban areas that welcome these waves of internal migration.

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