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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...

Publication on waste management in mountains

09.01.2017

A new report looks at the growing issue of waste in the world’s mountain regions. Launched by GRID-Arendal, the International Solid Waste Management Association and the United Nations...

Resilience in the rural Andes

29.12.2016

A recently published special issue of Regional Environmental Change focuses on “Resilience in the rural Andes”. The Andes present an ideal learning space to draw lessons on existing...

The Pewenche people of the Chilean Andes

21.12.2016

Transhumance is the practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer. In the lead up...

Pragya Seeds Nepal hosts Zero Waste workshop

19.12.2016

The workshop and training "Zero Waste, Zero Warming" was jointly organized by the District Development Committee of Dhunche, Rasuwa, Nepal and Pragya Seeds Nepal (PGSN) on 1-3 December...

Mountain Research and Development issue online

15.12.2016

The articles in this issue of Mountain Research and Development derive from papers presented at the 2015 Perth III “Mountains of Our Future Earth” conference and align themselves with research...

Online mountain assessment tool launched

13.12.2016

The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) Program of Future Earth launched a new version of the GMBA Mountain Portal on 11 December, International Mountain Day, along...