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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...

Facing climate change in Peruvian mountains

13.02.2015

Climate change, especially visible in mountain ecosystems, is causing glaciers to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening millions of lives dependent on freshwater resources originating from the mountains in Peru.

A...

Aligning mountain development with Malgasy policy

11.02.2015

As part of its commitment to the Mountain Partnership (MP), Madagascar has developed a reference document that aims to align the sustainable development of mountain areas with the...

Kyrgyz ancient traditions shared with world

10.02.2015

The Aigine Cultural Research Center together with the Manas epic chanters, Kubanychbek Almabekov and Samat Kochorbaev, represented Kyrgyz culture at the Fifth International Conference of Elders of the World’s Ancient...

Ecotourism workshop in the Tien Shan mountains

06.02.2015

On 22-23 January 2015, a workshop on "Establishment of a guest house" was held in Kurmety Village, Kazakhstan (in the Raimbek district of the Almaty region, the buffer zone of...

Balkan mountain towns working together

03.02.2015

The Association for Development of Mountain Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria (ADMMRB) established the Balkan Network of Local Authorities from Mountain Regions on the Balkans (BALMONTE) on...

Call for papers on women’s lives in mountains

02.02.2015

Scholarly papers related to women’s lives in mountainous areas may be submitted for the Fourth International Women of the Mountains Conference until 30 June 2015. The conference,...