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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...

Malawi forms national mountain committee

18.10.2017

Malawi will form a national committee on mountains, decided the participants of an inception workshop on sustainable mountain development (SMD) held on 29 September 2017. The participants also agreed that...

#MountainsMatter contest deadline extended

16.10.2017

The deadline to enter the #MountainsMatter video contest has been extended from 20 October to 3 November 2017. From Brazil to France, Nepal to Tanzania, people around the world are...

Call for papers, food security and SMD

13.10.2017

Food security is a key concern for sustainable mountain development (SMD). The journal Mountain Research and Development is looking for papers that present validated insights into development solutions for reducing...

Database of groups working with pastoralists

10.10.2017

Pastoralists are a collective of several hundred million livestock keepers whose unique livelihoods face challenges that are often linked to the environments in which they live and to the mobility...

‘Life in the Mountains’ publication launched

09.10.2017

The publication Life in the Mountains: Environmental and Cultural Diversity of Development Models was launched this month in Dushanbe, Tajikistan during an event organized by the University of...

New issue of MRD Journal available online

29.09.2017

For the latest issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD), guest editors G. Gratzer and W. Keeton invited researchers to reflect on the role of mountain forests in...