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ICT for Mountain Development Award 2016

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On World Environment Day, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) launched the ICT for Mountain Development Award for the third consecutive year. The award recognizes innovations, use and applications of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) that help to promote mountain development and environmental conservation....

MP member shares climate adaptation report

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Tara Joy and Stella Joy of Active Remedy Ltd had a private audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in northern India, during which they discussed the environment and their work on 23 May 2016. Having recently created a report on the use of local,...

Peruvian engineer wins Mountain Legacy medal

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Peruvian engineer César Augusto Portocarrero Rodríguez will be presented the 2017 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal on 11 December 2016, International Mountain Day, Nepalese NGO Mountain Legacy announced. Portocarrero has directed projects to mitigate the danger of outburst floods from numerous glacial lakes in the Andes, saving thousands of...

Global Himalayan Expedition 2016

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The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) will go to Ladakh, India, in June 2016 for its fourth expedition. This year the carefully selected team will light up the 2550-year-old Phuktal Gonpa Monastery, built in a natural cave in Zanskar in the northern part of the country.

The remotely located...

Italian mountain honey; drops of gold

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Think of Italy and one thinks of food, but not many people think ‘mountains.’ Yet mountains remain a principle source of the traditional, handcrafted food production that Italy is famous for.

Since climate and gradients combined render large-scale industrial agriculture unfeasible, food traditions and environmental health endure in most of Italy’s...

Volunteering with the MP Secretariat

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The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Milena Rivolova, whose volunteer term ended in April 2016. Originally from the Czech Republic and Switzerland, Milena moved to Rome, Italy, to study at university. While working for the MPS team, she was...