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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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European Mountain Plant Population Shows Delayed Response to Climate Change

European Mountain Plant Population Shows Delayed Response to Climate Change

09.05.2012

Plant species are expected to respond to a warming climate by moving their ranges pole-wards or up-wards in mountains. A European team of ecologists led by Stefan Dullinger from the...

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Nepal: mountain people “neglected”

Nepal: mountain people “neglected”

09.05.2012

Activists and experts stress how the needs of millions of indigenous mountain people across Nepal are overlooked, imperiling their food security and hindering their economic progress. In assessing the government-administered...

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Nepal: Destructive flood hits Pokhara

Nepal: Destructive flood hits Pokhara

08.05.2012

A destructive flood occurred 20 km north of Pokhara - the famous tourist spot - 200 km away from Kathmandu, in the early morning of 5 May 2012. Thirteen people...

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Asian glaciers bucking trend of climate change ice melt

Asian glaciers bucking trend of climate change ice melt

02.05.2012

Bucking the global trend, glaciers in the Karakoram region, north of the Himalaya, have been shown to be growing, gaining as much water from precipitation as they were losing from...

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Pakistan’s first climate change adaptation plan to tackle “mountain tsunamis”

Pakistan’s first climate change adaptation plan to tackle “mountain tsunamis”

02.05.2012

Pakistan, with its 5,218 glaciers and 2420 glacial lakes – 52 of which have been classified as potentially dangerous – has launched its first climate change adaptation project aimed at...

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Mountains in UN: “Harmony with Nature” Event

Mountains in UN: “Harmony with Nature” Event

30.04.2012

To mark International Mother Earth Day, the United Nations General Assembly held an interactive dialogue on harmony with nature on 18 April 2012 at UN Headquarters to examine how human...

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