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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...

System of Rice Intensification (SRI) increases high-altitude rice yields in Madagascar

03.02.2012

The SRI method was developed in the 1980s by the French Jesuit priest Henri de Laulanié. Challenging traditional rice production, SRI farmers transplant young seedlings with greater spacing on soil...

WWF's top 2012 endangered species

02.02.2012

The numbers of mountain gorillas, Sumatran orangutans, wild tigers and snow leopards are gradually declining - with hunting and habitat loss just some of the reasons that these animals are...

Need to Rewrite the Mountain Perspective

01.02.2012

Fragile, remote and marginal. These three adjectives are commonly used to address mountains in the so-called ‘mountain perspective’, said Indian development analyst Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma on chimalaya.org. For two decades,...

40 years of UNESCO World Heritage Convention

31.01.2012

UNESCO is one of our most prestigious members, and we have asked Marc Patry from the World Heritage Centre what the Convention envisages for mountains. How is UNESCO...

Mountain Nimba, Cote d'Ivoire awarded emergency relief grant

30.01.2012

The Côte d’Ivoire component of the transboundary Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage in Danger, has been awarded a Rapid Response...

India: Climate change takes malaria to the hills

29.01.2012

Due to climate change, malaria and other diseases may shift to higher altitudes, says a draft Action Plan for Climate Change recently compiled in India. Warming climate and...