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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...

Building support for the MPS in Rome, Italy

20.05.2015

The Permanent Representatives of Argentina and Italy to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) co-hosted a meeting to increase support for the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS)...

KIRDARC offers emergency support in Nepal

19.05.2015

The 25-member Emergency Response Team of Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC) is engaged in emergency relief support including in Nepal, following the 25 April 2015...

Promoting SMD in 2014

18.05.2015

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) reflects on its key achievements in promoting sustainable mountain development (SMD) last year in its 2014 annual report. Using mountain climbing as an analogy to...

ICIMOD Earthquake Brief: 15 May 2015

17.05.2015

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Task Force on Geo-hazards continued to map and assess hazards created by landslides, rock falls and avalanches in the aftermath...

New Mountain Partnership Ambassador appointed

15.05.2015

At a ceremony at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, USA, on 6 May, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, FAO Assistant Director-General for Forestry, announced the appointment of His Holiness the Drikung...

Mountains cited at environment meeting in Panama

14.05.2015

The Regional consultative meeting of the Major Groups and Stakeholders in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015 of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was...