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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...

Climate solutions for mountain ecosystems

21.09.2015

The Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) are organizing an exhibition on the...

New issue of MRD Journal is online

18.09.2015

Water issues in Latin America are the focus of 3 papers in this Open Issue. One shows how water privatization in Chile has dispossessed indigenous people of their water rights,...

UNFCCC COP21: Time to take action

17.09.2015

In December, Paris will host the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an event gathering around 40 000 participants,...

Declaration on mountains at UNFCCC COP21

16.09.2015

In preparation for the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Paris during the period 30...

Online petition for mountains at UNFCCC COP21

15.09.2015

In preparation for the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Paris during the...

Volunteering for the MP Secretariat

14.09.2015

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Joseph Astrella, whose volunteer term ended in August 2015. Prior to joining...