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Mountain Partnership project highlighted at The World Farmers Markets Coalition Second General Assembly

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...

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UNESCO Holds Workshop on Impact of Glacier Retreat in Andes

UNESCO Holds Workshop on Impact of Glacier Retreat in Andes

14.06.2012

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organized a regional workshop titled "The Impact of Glacier Retreat in the Andes: International Multidisciplinary Network for Adaptation Strategies" under the auspices...

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Sink or Swim: Documentary Awards - Call for Entries

Sink or Swim: Documentary Awards - Call for Entries

13.06.2012

In collaboration with the Goethe Institute, CGIAR, SIDA, and the Thai Film Foundation, IUCN is organizing the Southeast Asian Students Documentary Awards, a competition to encourage the art of documentary...

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Bolivian President Evo Morales Promotes Quinoa Against Food Crisis

Bolivian President Evo Morales Promotes Quinoa Against Food Crisis

12.06.2012

On Monday, Bolivian President Evo Morales praised the quinoa plant, a neglected mountain crop popular among health-conscious foodies, as a way to help solve the global food crisis. "Faced with...

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What women want from Rio+20

What women want from Rio+20

08.06.2012

As first recognized twenty years ago, at the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio, women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation...

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Where Have All The Hummingbirds Gone?

Where Have All The Hummingbirds Gone?

07.06.2012

The glacier lily, as it is called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first...

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Locusts, a threat to crops in Africa

Locusts, a threat to crops in Africa

07.06.2012

Croplands in Niger and Mali are at “imminent risk” from desert locust swarms that are moving southward from Algeria and Libya, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

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