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Mountain Partnership project highlighted at The World Farmers Markets Coalition Second General Assembly

19.07.2024

On 12 July 2024, industry leaders, agriculture experts and farmers gathered from around the world for an event focused on leveraging partnerships to enhance local food systems. The event featured a series of roundtable discussions aimed at identifying and forging new alliances.

The first roundtable discussion explored the challenges and opportunities...

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...

Pollution, climate, health in the Himalayas

26.09.2017

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), jointly with the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Population and Environment (MoPE), will be hosting a series of...

Enter the #MountainsMatter video contest

25.09.2017

To bring attention to the plight of mountain peoples and ecosystems for International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...