Promoting Sustainable Farming in Mountain Regions - International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO)eventThe seventh IPROMO training programme on sustainable mountain development jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin will focus on small-scale agriculture in mountains, ranging from the economic and social aspects to environmental aspects, such as coping with climate change and...
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Cleaning up the mountains in SpainnewsMountain Wilderness will take part in a cleaning day called ‘Gredos Limpio’, which is organized by a citizens’ collective in the Sierra de Gredos in Central Spain. This initiative, supported by the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park, will be held on 4 October 2014, before the first snow...
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Pendeba initiative at Mount Everest wins prizenewsThe Pendeba Society of the Tibet Autonomous Region was chosen as one of the winners of the Equator Prize 2014 for its efforts to safeguard the Qomolangma (Mount Everest) National Nature Preserve, an area roughly the size of Switzerland. The award-winning Pendeba initiative employs locally-nominated volunteers (pendebas) from each...
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Women Climbing for Climate ChangenewsThe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is supporting the K2 expedition: ‘Women Climbing for Climate Change’. The expedition is being undertaken by a team of three young women climbers from Nepal – Maya Sherpa, Dawa Sherpa and Pasang Sherpa – to demonstrate the strength of women...
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Tajik students learn about managing climate risknews
The Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Reduction in partnership with Khorog State University, Youth for Mountain Development and the State Committee for Emergency Situations of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast are organizing a summer school for 15 students in Khorog City, Tajikistan, from 30 July to 3 August 2014. Participants...
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Video submissions capture mountain culturesnewsThe Mountain Partnership would like to express gratitude to all the mountain enthusiasts who responded to our call for videos. We received a number of fascinating videos about mountain peoples and environments from across the globe reflecting the breathtaking diversity of mountain peoples, their cultures and habitats from the Andes...
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