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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...

Nonprofit builds school for rural Nepalese children

06.03.2020

Children in Nepal are receiving new home thanks to Small World and The Small World USA. Scheduled to open in May 2020, the home for rural youth...

Advocating for mountain food systems in Cameroon

04.03.2020

The International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV) advocated for sustainable food systems in mountains at the international Mount Cameroon Race of Hope on 22 February 2020...

Mainstreaming mountain biodiversity

27.02.2020

Member states and key decision makers met to discuss how to mainstream mountains into the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

The Informal Mountain Gathering was held on the margins of...

Members’ Voices: Bibiana Vilá - VICAM

27.02.2020

I have dedicated my entire professional life to vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna): wild South American camelids that roam the Andes Mountains. I am a biologist working in Argentina to conserve these...

Announcing IMD 2020 theme: Mountain biodiversity!

21.02.2020

This year’s theme for International Mountain Day (IMD) 2020 is protecting mountain biodiversity.

The year 2020 has been widely termed the “Super Year of Biodiversity”, what the United Nations...

Using sensor technology for mountains

19.02.2020

The University of Turin, in collaboration with the company “Lo Scatol8 per la Sostenibilità”, is advancing technology in the Monte Rosa mountain massif between Italy and Switzerland. Researchers are testing...