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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...

Why is food insecurity rising in mountains?

08.06.2016

There are many interrelated factors behind this troubling trend, explains Andrew Taber of The Mountain Institute, referring to data revealed by “Mapping the Vulnerability of Mountain Peoples to...

ICT for Mountain Development Award 2016

06.06.2016

On World Environment Day, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) launched the ICT for Mountain Development Award for the third consecutive year. The award recognizes innovations,...

MP member shares climate adaptation report

05.06.2016

Tara Joy and Stella Joy of Active Remedy Ltd had a private audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in northern India, during which they...

Peruvian engineer wins Mountain Legacy medal

04.06.2016

Peruvian engineer César Augusto Portocarrero Rodríguez will be presented the 2017 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal on 11 December 2016, International Mountain Day, Nepalese NGO Mountain Legacy announced. Portocarrero...

Italian mountain honey; drops of gold

02.06.2016

Think of Italy and one thinks of food, but not many people think ‘mountains.’ Yet mountains remain a principle source of the traditional, handcrafted food production that Italy is famous...

Volunteering with the MP Secretariat

01.06.2016

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Milena Rivolova, whose volunteer term ended in April 2016. Originally from the Czech...