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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 adaptation lessons from Nepal and Peru

13.09.2015

Mountains play a major role in providing water to large numbers of people. These glacier-dominated areas also pose challenges to downstream communities as they adapt to recent and continuing global...

Dushanbe Forum releases synthesis report

11.09.2015

More than 120 representatives of organizations from across Central Asia and from around the world whose work is dedicated to the concerns of mountain societies and environments, gathered in Dushanbe...

Vote for the Best Climate Practices Award

10.09.2015

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Centre for Environment and Agriculture Policy Research, Extension and Development (CEAPRED) have developed four Climate Smart Villages (CSV) pilots...

MPS video message to Interski Congress 2015

09.09.2015

“Mountain regions attract about 20 percent of global tourism, but we need to remember that many mountain peoples live in extreme poverty and are affected by natural disasters” said Thomas...

EXPO celebrates the role of Andean grains

08.09.2015

The value chain of Andean cereals and their potential for sustainable development and the fight against hunger was discussed at Expo at an event organized by the Italian...

Seminar on lessons from Nepal’s earthquake

03.09.2015

Experts from both Nepal and India stressed the need for mainstreaming disaster reduction into planning, relief operations preparedness and the importance of concerted scientific efforts. Lessons in preparedness and...