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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...

Summer course to focus on mountain family farming

18.03.2014

This July in Ormea, Italy, the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) will focus on sustainable farming in mountain areas in observance of...

Students from Kyrgyz mountains attend webinar

14.03.2014

The three-month, online training course called, “Sustainable Mountain Development in Kyrgyzstan,” concluded with 25 school-aged participants in its final webinar on 11 March 2014. The certificate course was organized by...

New Mountain Research and Development issue now online

13.03.2014

Papers in Volume 34, Issue 1, which is now available online and open access, address issues from governance to human-nature interaction and assessments of biophysical dynamics in mountains. They explore...

Call for abstracts on mountain family farming

12.03.2014

Small-scale agriculture and food security in mountains are among the topics on the World Mountain Forum agenda. Please send your abstracts for the international conference that will take place in...

Kyrgyzstan focuses on climate change

04.03.2014

In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 47 climate change practitioners, scientists and researchers met with government and non-governmental organization representatives on February 25, 2014, to discuss institutional and political frameworks for coping and...

Tajikistan mountain villages supported in coping with climate change

26.02.2014

Residents of Midenshor Village in the remote western Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan will soon have access to drinking water thanks to the Alliance of Central Asian Mountain Communities...