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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...

Kyrgyz mountain women train in milk processing

23.06.2017

A training on milk processing and cheese making was provided to a group of women from three remote mountain villages in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan, as a result of...

Water catchments in the Cameroon highlands

22.06.2017

The Save Your Future Association (SYFA) is a grassroot non-profit organization working in the Western Highlands of Cameroon, precisely in the Northwest Region. SYFA was founded in 2001...

Mountains and the SDG indicator framework

21.06.2017

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted the indicator framework developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals indicators, as contained in the draft resolution...

Mountains recognized at the highest level

15.06.2017

Over the past decades, the area of glaciers in Tajikistan has decreased by 30-35 percent, said United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to Tajikistan.

"Earlier today, he [the...

Iberian mountain research network established

12.06.2017

A group of 19 universities and research centres from Andorra, Portugal and Spain have formalized the creation of an Iberian mountain research network to study in partnership the issues affecting...

Mountain newspaper wins Energy Globe Award

05.06.2017

Aiyl Demi, a monthly Kyrgyz-language newspaper designed to serve remote mountain communities, has won the Energy Globe Award in the national category for Kyrgyzstan. Also referred to as the “Oscar...