A dzud occurs when a severe winter follows a dry summer, making it difficult for Mongolia's livestock to feed
WITH AN AVERAGE of 250 days of sunshine each year, Mongolia is justifiably known as the “Land of Blue Sky”. But when temperatures fall during the winter months, sometimes as low as -50°C, conditions can turn disastrous. The worst winters have their own name. Aoccurs when a severe winter follows a dry summer, making it difficult for the country’s livestock to feed.
Such severe winters used to occur once every decade or so; now they are happening every year in some parts of the country. Climate change is partly to blame, contributing to creeping desertification of the steppe and more extreme swings in temperature and precipitation. Overgrazing is also a factor. Since the country abandoned its Soviet-style agriculture system in the 1990s, livestock numbers have more than doubled, to over 65m.
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