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MPS releases 2023 Annual Report highlighting major achievements in sustainable mountain development

09.08.2024

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) has released its 2023 Annual Report, now accessible online. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the MPS's accomplishments in promoting sustainable mountain development throughout the year, together with spotlights on Mountain Partnership members' work.

Key highlights include the Secretariat's efforts in advocacy, communication...

Commitment from Asian mountain experts on climate change

25.03.2013

Experts from Asian mountains committed themselves to working together for social and ecological resilience to climate change at the Regional Workshop on...

Call for case studies for new publication on Mountain Family Farming

23.03.2013

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are planning a publication on...

Mountain children draw for the International Day of Forests

21.03.2013

The Association of Forest and Land Users of Kyrgyzstan organized a competition of children’s drawings in the remote mountainous village of Kochkorka for the first International Forest Day,...

‘Vulture restaurants’ among Maloti Drakensberg conservation efforts

19.03.2013

Highly endangered Bearded Vultures are dining out at special ‘vulture restaurants’ as part of conservation efforts in the Maloti and Drakensberg mountains.

The restaurants provide animal carcasses for the birds to...

New Mountain Research and Development issue online

18.03.2013

A new issue of Mountain Research and Development is now available online.

Topics examined include adaptive capacity in hill farming, institutional and ecological aspects of rangeland management, geospatial selection of reforestation...

Call for papers on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains

13.03.2013

Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) invite well-validated and sound analyses of approaches to, and conditions for, initiating gender-positive transformation in mountain...