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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...

Sign the petition for mountains

30.10.2015

The current draft of the international climate change agreement has a proposed mention of mountains, which the petition being circulated by the Mountain Partnership (MP) aims to retain in the...

Governance approaches for mountain ecosystems

29.10.2015

Since 2015 is the year of Sustainable Development and the United Nations Sustainable Development goals (UN SDG) have now been launched, the topic of sustainable development has been much explored...

Nepal group wins Mountain Protection Award

28.10.2015

Nepal-based project KTK-BELT (in full ‘Koshi Tappu Kanchenjunga Biodiversity Education Livelihood Tera Studio') has been confirmed as the third winner of the UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA).

Created in 2013 as a...

MP Steering Committee discusses 2016

27.10.2015

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee met in Turin, at the Palazzo dal Pozzo della Cisterna, on 14-15 October 2015. This was the second formal meeting of the Steering Committee (SC)...

Partnerships key to achieving global goals

26.10.2015

Partnerships play a key role in overcoming hunger and ensuring resilient livelihoods through promoting the sustainable management of mountains in the dryland areas. Speakers at a 20 October 2015...

Climate change threatens snow leopards

23.10.2015

Snow leopard enthusiasts around the world celebrate the second annual International Snow Leopard Day on 23 October to raise awareness about the endangered species. Threats to the elusive mountain feline...