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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...

9 events, 8 countries, 1 goal for mountains

24.05.2016

From the lush green valleys of North Wales to the alluring, vibrant Black Forest to sun-kissed Tenerife and the imposing might of Mount Kazbek, the International Mountaineering and...

MountaiNow - an app for mountain safety

23.05.2016

Why an app for safety in the mountains? In Italy in 2015 alone there were more than 450 deaths and more than 7 000 accidents in the mountains, as reported...

Holding the water on Mount Kenya

19.05.2016

Mount Kenya Trust (MKT) is an NGO working to protect and conserve the forest, water and wildlife around Africa’s second highest mountain – Mount Kenya. The Afromontane forests,...

Grants for writing Himalaya atmosphere news

17.05.2016

Air quality in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is deteriorating by the day. The problem demands urgent attention from governments, policy makers, scientists, stakeholders and the public. The media...

'We are all mountain people', a roundtable says

13.05.2016

The Food and Agriculture Organization Liaison Office for North America (FAO-LOW) organized a meeting with Thomas Hofer, Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, to present key results from the FAO...

Radical sustainability in the Apennines

12.05.2016

Have you ever eaten a Neolithic food?

The Piano Grande, as the name suggests, is a huge plain and is encircled by dramatic mountains in Central Italy. The frequently photographed mountain...