Mongolian Rangelands and Resilience (MOR2)
Project
Universities and Research Institutes
NGOs
Acknowledgement of Conference and Proceedings Funders
The Organizing Committee of the Building Resilience of Mongolian Rangelands: A Trans-disciplinary Research Conference would like to acknowledge all supporters and organizers of this conference.
Major funding for this conference was provided by the US National Science Foundation (CNH Program Grant No. BCS-1011), the Embassy of the United States of America, and The Reed Funk Foundation Account at Utah State University. Additional support was provided by the Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods Project (JFPR 9164-MON) funded by Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction administered by Asian Development Bank, The Nature Conservancy’s Mongolian Program, The Sustainable Fibre Alliance and Land Test LLC.
We thank our colleagues and partners from Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources, Nutag Action Research Institute, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Research Institute of Animal Husbandry, Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Geography and Geo-Ecology, Mongolian Foundation of Science and Technology, Mongolian Society for Rangeland Management, and the Center for Nomadic Pastoralism Studies for their collaboration and support in preparing for this conference. All these contributions have been instrumental in maintaining this highly successful program.