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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...

Mountains at the World Conservation Congress

30.08.2016

This year the World Conservation Congress, hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), will feature a number of events that address mountains on 1-10...

Agro-ecology training in mountains of Morocco

25.08.2016

Migrations & Développement started a project to train a network of farmers in southern Morocco in the ways of agro-ecology. To resolve two of the challenges that farmers in...

Call for input for Snow Leopard Day

24.08.2016

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Government of Kyrgyzstan and the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) Secretariat are planning a high-level panel event...

The summit is not always the highest point

23.08.2016

The following account comes directly from a mountaineer and is courtesy of Husseyn (Gusseyn) Bagirov, Minister of Environment in Azerbaijan and President of ADEINFA (Air and Extreme Sports Federations Association),...

Paintings showcase mountains in Pakistan

22.08.2016

More than 50 oil-on-canvas paintings depicting the mountains of Pakistan were put on display at the Islamabad Art and Craft Village on 14 August 2016 to mark the Pakistan Independence...

Adaptation to climate change in Gandaki basin

20.08.2016

HI-AWARE – a research programme on adaptation, water and resilience in glacier and snowpack dependent river basins of the region – brought together policy makers and practitioners from Nepal for...