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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...

Alysh Dan: a mountain apricot community

22.07.2016

The Farmer Cooperative ‘Alysh Dan’ was established in 2008 and is currently comprised of 1 200 members, including 63 households of bio-farmers. The cooperative produces organic products for...

New ICIMOD publications about yaks

21.07.2016

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal, announces the release of several new publications on its online library, HimalDoc. The publications span a range...

MiratecArts announces mountain photo contest

20.07.2016

Mountain Pico Festival is an arts celebration hosted by MiratecArts taking place in January 2017 on the mountain island of Pico, Azores, Portugal. Programming is subject to the mountain...

Examining food justice in the Rocky Mountains

19.07.2016

This summer the University of Denver - Western Colorado Master Social Work (DU MSW) is focusing on sustainable food systems in the Western Slope and Central Rocky Mountain...

July issue of eco.mont journal now available

15.07.2016

The July 2016 issue of “eco.mont – The Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” is now available online. The journal was founded as a joint initiative of the...

Volunteering with the MP Secretariat

14.07.2016

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Yanko Dzhukev, from Bulgaria, who was an intern during January-April 2016. Before joining...