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 years ago. On 2 May 2005, an act forming the national committee was signed by nine institutions who were later joined by another 14, and has since become a space for institutional actors to work together on mountain issues and has generated collective and horizontal learning between institutions managing sustainable development in Andean areas, the news by Maria Lidia Testani says.
In addition to the development of strong institutional synergies, the Committee has enhanced participatory processes on the state of knowledge, action and policy in mountain areas and the management of their natural resources in 2015. Through the Andean Initiative (involving Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) in the framework of the Mountain Partnership and given the importance of institutional strengthening of other countries, information and cooperation networks have been set up to allow the exchange of experiences.
The newsletter also features stories about the outcome of a December 2015 workshop called Spatial Technology in the Management, Monitoring and Conservation of Natural and Cultural Sites in Argentina and Italy; a mountain school garden project; a diet and income improvement initiative for an indigenous group and the donation of a book about ‘upland caravans’ to the Committee library.
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Photo: Bibiana Vila
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