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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...

Mountains: A Very Short Introduction

21.10.2015

Mountains cover a quarter of the earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major...

Solar energy for Tajik mountain communities

20.10.2015

Rural inhabitants of Tajikistan are particularly vulnerable to energy poverty. Factors in this are extreme weather conditions which can isolate mountain areas for several months of the year, a poorly...

Camp for mudflow-affected villages in Tajikistan

19.10.2015

The Center for Climate Change and Disaster Reduction (CCDR) with the financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), organized a Youth Summer...

Meeting discusses inclusive mountain development

16.10.2015

The Fourth International Women of the Mountains Conference (WOMC) was co-organized by Utah Valley University (UVU) and the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) in Orem, Utah, USA on...

Mountain science community gathers in Perth

15.10.2015

More than 400 scientists, researchers and practitioners from across the global came to Perth, Scotland on 4-8 October 2015 to attend the largest scientific conference on mountains. The four-day international...

South America group meets on disaster reduction

13.10.2015

The Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Central American Coordination Centre for Natural Disaster Prevention (CEPREDENAC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ...