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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...

MP Ambassador visits the Peruvian Andes

17.06.2015

In his first official visit as a Mountain Partnership (MP) Ambassador, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang took time from his pilgrimage to the Andes for...

ICT for Mountain Development Award 2015

16.06.2015

On the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is pleased to launch...

Expo recognizes the Mountain Partnership

15.06.2015

This year’s Universal Exposition, better known as Expo, in Milan, Italy, featured a week dedicated solely to mountains on 4–11 June 2015. Mountain Week was a series of events about...

Mountains cited at global water conference

12.06.2015

The High Level International Conference on the Implementation of the International Decade of Water for Life (2005-2015), held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 9-10 June 2015, included a reference to mountains...

Supporting climate policy for mountain ecosystems

11.06.2015

Carbon markets and climate finance payments are being used to incentivize the mitigation of CO₂ arising from anthropogenic land-use change in forests, marine ecosystems, and lowland grasslands. However, no such consideration...

Central Asian forum focuses on mountains

10.06.2015

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 on 8...