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FAO Forestry helps launch Living Chapel installation

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Nature is sending us a message that we must change our behaviour for a more sustainable future, FAO Forestry Assistant Director-General Hiroto Mitsugi said today at the launch of a new green artwork for World Environment Day.

Mitsugi was speaking at the unveiling of the Living Chapel, a vertical garden...

Living Chapel launch event agenda

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Living Chapel launch event agenda

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CIMO dedicates resources to COVID-19 testing for mountain communities

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Mountain Partnership member Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO) has dedicated its time, efforts, resources and even its facilities to help local mountain communities during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

CIMO has contributed its accommodations to COVID-19 testing of elderly community members in the mountainous Trás-os-Montes region of...

Plateau Perspectives launches documentary on ecotourism in Kyrgyzstan

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The June 2020 edition of Peak to Peak starts off with Plateau Perspective's new documentary film on ecotourism, jointly released with the Mountain Partnership and the International Ecotourism Society on the International Day for Biological Diversity. This month's Members' Voices is about Mountain Partnership Products Initiative women producers of chamomile tea in...

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Mountain Partnership’s ARCOS contributes to SOFO 2020 launch

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Forests, biodiversity and people were at the heart of the official launch of the State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2020 joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) event on Friday 22 May - the International Day for Biological Diversity.

Women’s livelihoods blossom with the help of chamomile tea

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On Thursday, 21 May, the world commemorated International Tea Day to celebrate the world’s most consumed drink, after water. People have been drinking tea for at least 5 000 years, but for smallholder women farmers in Malla Satinaugaon, India, producing chamomile tea is an innovative new means of sustaining their...