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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...

iAlp, mountain museums going digital

28.02.2017

The Museo Nazionale della Montagna of Turin, Italy and the Musée Alpin of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France are building a digital database of their combined cultural assets to be made...

A study on Philippine mountain peoples

27.02.2017

Indigenous mountain peoples are using community-based forest resources management to mitigate climate variation in the Caraballo Mountains, the Philippines, a new study shows. Using qualitative case study research methods and...

Oil and gas exploitation in the Albertine Rift

22.02.2017

The Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) has issued the fourth edition of AREALA News, a newsletter of the Albertine Rift Environmental Assessment Alliance to promote sustainable development responsibility....

Climate change certificate programme in Nepal

21.02.2017

To address the growing challenges of climate change and disaster risk reduction, 70 district officials in the Chitwan District, Nepal gathered on 14 February to start a four-month certification programme...

UVU discusses mountains and the 2030 Agenda

17.02.2017

The Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, Ambassador Macharia Kamau, gave a lecture on the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for Utah Valley University...

A festival on Portugal's highest mountain

16.02.2017

Throughout the month of January, a festival took place on the highest mountain of Portugal: Pico Island, Azores. With a programme packed full of art exhibitions, book launches, film screenings,...