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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...

Asia commemorates IMD

20.01.2016

Like every year, many organizations in Asia enthusiastically observed International Mountain Day (IMD) in December 2015. The FAO Representation Office in Iran organized a conference in which Alessandro Amadio, the...

Celebrating IMD in Africa

20.01.2016

Several events took place on the African continent to honour International Mountain Day (IMD) 2015. In Algeria, the association Assirem Gouraya organized the fourth edition of the Mountain National Festival,...

Forum Carpaticum 2016 - call for abstracts

19.01.2016

The Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative invites scientists, representatives from policy, economy, management, and doctoral students interested in the Carpathian Mountains to the 4th Forum Carpaticum “Future of the...

A very successful International Mountain Day

18.01.2016

For International Mountain Day (IMD), 67 events were organized worldwide in which mountaineers, mountain lovers, governments and institutions gathered on 11 December 2015 to celebrate mountain environments and inhabitants. Celebrations took...

High elevation warming compared to the Arctic

14.01.2016

The question whether mountains and other high elevation regions of the world are warming more rapidly as compared to other portions of the planet is of tremendous interest to many...

Argentina Mountain Committee news

13.01.2016

The latest 2015 edition of the electronic newsletter of Argentina’s National Committee for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions opens with a look back at its founding of ten...