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Tajik students learn about managing climate risk

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The Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Reduction in partnership with Khorog State University, Youth for Mountain Development and the State Committee for Emergency Situations of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast are organizing a summer school for 15 students in Khorog City, Tajikistan, from 30 July to 3 August 2014. Participants...

Video submissions capture mountain cultures

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The Mountain Partnership would like to express gratitude to all the mountain enthusiasts who responded to our call for videos. We received a number of fascinating videos about mountain peoples and environments from across the globe reflecting the breathtaking diversity of mountain peoples, their cultures and habitats from the Andes...

Study reveals hunger in mountainous areas

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At least one billion people, or 14 percent of the world’s population, live in mountain areas of the world and most of these peoples face the risk of food insecurity and malnutrition, says a new study presented at a side event during the 22nd Session of the...

COFO side event on Mapping Mountains Vulnerability

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The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is organizing a side event during the 22nd Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) on Mapping Mountain Vulnerability. The event will present the preliminary findings of the update of a 2002 FAO working paper, “Towards a GIS-based analysis of mountain environments and populations,” compiled for...

MP Members write to Governments

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Issue 70 - Month 6 - Year 2014

Our new issue of Peak to Peak opens with news about the actions Mountain Partnership members have taken with their Governments requesting that mountains receive the attention they deserve in the sustainable development goals process. We also look at...

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Mountain Research and Development issue online

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Papers in this open issue of MRD discuss impacts of cultural and economic changes on mountains, as well as mountains’ role as resource providers. Research topics include migration trends among ethnic Tibetans in Nepal leading to depopulation of their native mountain valleys; agriculture and development potentials in understudied mountains of...