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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...

Calling for protection of the Ghats mountains

19.08.2016

The Bhuvaneshwar Declaration addresses the ecology and status of the Eastern Ghats, a discontinuous range of mountains along the east coast of peninsular India. It was written by participants...

Newsletter about mountains in Argentina

18.08.2016

The National Mountain Committee of Argentina has issued the 12th edition of its newsletter, which outlines progress made on the Telefood project. Two aspects of the project came to an...

Marketing mountain products in Kyrgyzstan

15.08.2016

The felted handicrafts that come from the Kyrgyz Republic are still just being discovered by the European and American markets. Kyrgyz artisans are the “master felt makers” of the world....

Access resources through the MP database

12.08.2016

If your organization is looking for resources to fund a programme or project on sustainable mountain development, follow these tips to navigate the Mountain Partnership’s (MP) online funding database. The...

Japan celebrates the first-ever Mountain Day

11.08.2016

Japan celebrates its newest national holiday “Yama no Hi”, or Mountain Day, for the first time today, 11 August 2016. The holiday has been introduced for the purpose of celebrating...

Prospects and opportunity in the Italian Alps

10.08.2016

The National Coordination Board in support of the Italian Delegation to the Alpine Convention met in Turin, Italy, at the Museo Nazionale della Montagna on 20 July 2016....