Webinar highlights opportunities of UN Decade of Family FarmingnewsEmpowering family famers and stimulating long-term commitments in their favour was the aim of a webinar organized by Slow Food and the World Rural Forum. The event highlighted the challenges and opportunities faced by family farmers as well as family farmers’ importance and contribution to achieving... Read more » |
Students winning ideas to become mountain documentariesnewsTwo students from the Centro Regional Universitario de Tierras Altas (CRUTA), Edwin De Gracia and Yeferson Martínez, are the winners of the Stories from the Summit contest. Their proposals will be produced into documentaries in 2021. Mountain Partnership member Fundación CoMunidad, jointly with the Universidad Autónoma de... Read more » |
Utah students advocate for mountain women at CSW65newsMembers of the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition of student clubs at Utah Valley University (UVU), showcased Utah as a promising model for sustainable mountain development during a parallel event at the sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) on 22 March.... Read more » |
Jaguars in Jujuy – a sign of healthy mountain ecosystemsnewsFor the last ten years, Fundación ProYungas – a member of the Mountain Partnership since 2005 – has been monitoring biodiversity in northern Argentina with camera traps. Monitoring occurs in the territories of companies participating in the Protected Productive Landscape programme. To date, the camera traps have recorded... Read more » |
FAO Women's Committee celebrates ethical mountain fashionpeak to peakThe April 2021 issue of Peak to Peak highlights the collaboration between fashion designer Stella Jean and the Kyrgyz artisan group "Topchu". Top news stories include the editorial by Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Marina Sereni, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs... Download » |
Mountain Homestays conducts transformative tourism workshops for Bhil Community of Madhya PradeshnewsThe Mountain Homestays team recently travelled to nine villages in Madhya Pradesh, India to conduct three-day workshops on homestay operations. Their objective was community empowerment and engagement that would lead farmers to gain an additional source of income from tourism. After over a decade of working with communities in... Read more » |
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