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CEE Himalaya trains teachers on DRR

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Throughout April 2018, the Centre for Environment Education (CEE Himalaya) and RCE Srinagar, with financial support from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Give2Asia, organized four teacher training workshops (TTW) on disaster risk reduction (DRR) preparedness for the teachers of the Jarwal Block,...

CMC joins the Mountain Partnership

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A Colorado Mountain College (CMC) faculty member’s trip to Bhutan two years ago has morphed into a new opportunity for the college to go global. CMC recently became a member of the Mountain Partnership.

In 2016 Lorraine Miller, an English as a second language instructor and developmental education faculty...

Trento Film Festival

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The 66th edition of the Trento Film Festival will take place on 26 April – 6 May 2018 in Trento, Italy. Every year, the Trento Film Festival presents some of the best documentaries, fiction works and short films set in mountains and extreme areas around the world, recounting the...

Climate resilience in Central Asia’s mountains

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Kyrgyzstan is one of the most vulnerable countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to the impacts of climate change, primarily due to the sensitivity of its agricultural systems to climatic changes. Higher temperatures could cause altered precipitation patterns and more frequent heat waves, leading to increased aridity and drought,...

Mountain Research and Development issue online

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The papers in the latest issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD) analyze gender-inclusive nettle value chain development in western Nepal, discuss the impact of Swiss government policy on maintaining high-mountain pasturing in the Alps, present an agronomic study of an endangered landrace of runner bean in Italy...

Mountain Partnership Steering Committee meeting

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The Mountain Partnership (MP) Steering Committee (SC) meeting will take place at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 23-24 April 2018. This will be the first official meeting of the SC since the new members were elected during the Fifth Global Meeting...