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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...

Mountain resolution approved at the United Nations

25.11.2022

The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly approved the new resolution on sustainable mountain development on 22 November 2022 during its seventy-seventh session. The...

Mountain Partnership at COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

22.11.2022

A series of side events at COP27 provided an opportunity to discuss how to strengthen participation of mountain people in national and international policy processes and called for...

First phase of the Mountain Facility: Five proposals selected

16.11.2022

Five mountain producers' organizations and institutions have been selected to receive grants through the Mountain Facility, a financing mechanism operated by the Mountain Partnership (MP) to respond to members'...

Members’ Voices: PiusMbogo Matunge, Tengeneza Generation

15.11.2022

The Mountain Partnership - the United Nations alliance dedicated to mountains - is all about working together for sustainable mountain development around the world. Our vast and diverse membership counts...

Working with mountain communities could help water systems adapt to climate

11.11.2022

In a new paper, Imperial College London researchers outline how integrated water strategies that include scientists working directly with mountain communities on the ground could help them drive their...

Season 2 of “Voices from the Roof of the World” out now

10.11.2022

Alarms are ringing throughout the world: the most ruinous floods in Pakistan's history, the worst drought in a generation in East Africa, Everest base camp turned from a frigid outpost...