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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...

Alpine photo contest 2015

01.06.2015

Sporty and artsy, young and old; traditional and innovative; farmers and gamers, we look for it all! Show us what active and vibrant Alps mean to you. Capture the everyday...

Meeting on mountain development in the Caucasus

28.05.2015

The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was invited to participate in the International Roundtable Meeting ‘Man and...

Policies on Costa Rican forests and mountains

27.05.2015

In 2014, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), formalized the "Guidelines to Facilitate the Implementation of National Forestry Development Plan (NDFP) Costa Rica during the period between...

Mountains in Horizon 2020 agenda

26.05.2015

Lobbying for mountain research with the European funding agencies is one of the current projects of the CH-AT coordination office in Bern. In two meetings in Vienna and Bern, the...

MP workshop for global mountain label

25.05.2015

‘Mountain products hold immense economic potential to boost sustainable development in mountain regions,’ concluded a group of experts convened by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the Food...

Presenting results on renewable energy in Alps

21.05.2015

The Alps offer great potential for renewable energy production. But this simultaneously increases the pressure on nature. The partners in the international recharge.green project have found ways to ensure this...