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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...

Two new books on African mountain development

06.03.2015

On 4 March 2015, Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Partners released two landmark publications to guide the sustainable mountain development (SMD) agenda...

Quality term for mountain products in EU

05.03.2015

Entitled “Quality from the mountains – Prosperity for people and territories”, the IXth European Mountain Convention took place in Bilbao, Spain, on 22–24 October 2014, organized by Euromontana...

Andean ‘dream maker’ on Japanese TV

04.03.2015

Dr Bibiana Vilá, the Mountain Partnership focal point of Argentinean environmental conservation group, VICAM: Vicuñas, Camélidos y Ambiente, was featured in a Japanese television program among the winners...

Call for papers on the Himalayas

03.03.2015

The Bhutan Ecological Society would like to invite all interested national and international scientists and practitioners to submit their manuscripts to [email protected], for consideration for publication in the 2015 issue...

Italian museum documents Bolivian mountains

02.03.2015

The second research mission of the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (the National Mountain Museum) to Bolivia is underway. This time its journey is focused on the centre west area, in...

Mountain Partnership Steering Committee meets

26.02.2015

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee (SC) met at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 17 -18 February. This was the first formal meeting of the SC that was established and...