![]() International Mountain Day theme announcednews“Mountains under Pressure: climate, hunger, migration” is the theme chosen for this year’s celebration of International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December 2017. Almost one billion people live in mountain areas, and over half the human population depends on mountains for water, food and clean energy. Yet mountains are under many... Read more » |
![]() Mountain summer course in Italy to opennewsParticipants of the 2017 International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) will meet on 5 July in Ormea and Pieve Tesino, Italy to begin a two-week training programme on sustainable mountain development. About 30 professionals from the fields of Agriculture, Economics, Forestry, Biology, Geology... Read more » |
![]() Mountain Research and Development issue onlinenewsArticles in Mountain Research and Development (MRD) often relate to the climate change debate at the core of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process currently gearing up for the 6th Assessment Report. Two papers in this open issue offer contrasting positions: one is critical and advocates a stronger... Read more » |
![]() We are Alps Tour 2017: "Water in the Alps"eventThe 2017 edition of the We are Alps tour will show the characteristics, features, opportunities and common issues that Alpine inhabitants are facing. This year’s focus will be on the topic of “Water in the Alps”. A small group of journalists will be taken for a week-long excursion across the Alps,... Read more » |
![]() Kyrgyz mountain women train in milk processingnewsA training on milk processing and cheese making was provided to a group of women from three remote mountain villages in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan, as a result of a joint initiative between two Mountain Partnership member organizations, the Global and Local Information Partnership (GLIP) and the... Read more » |
![]() FAO's Work in Sustainable Mountain Development and Watershed Management—A 2017 UpdatepublicationThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides an update on its activities related to sustainable mountain development and watershed management in this 2017 platform statement published in Volume 37, Issue 2 (May 2017) of Mountain Research and Development. Download » |
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