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Inclusive and resilient mountain food systems: Opportunities and best practices - policy brief

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Mountain food systems are unique, complex, diverse, and linked with cultures of local communities and indigenous peoples. They shape landscapes, and support biodiversity and nutrition security worldwide. Currently, these systems are playing an important for providing ecosystem services, sustaining the livelihoods of 1.1 billion people living in the world’s mountains...

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6th Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership

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The Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF) will host the sixth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership in Aspen, Colorado, United States of America in September 2022 (dates to be determined), as decided by vote of the Mountain Partnership Steering Committee.

According to the Mountain Partnership’s Governance and Strategy, a Global Meeting is...

8th European Symposium on South American Camelids and 4th European Meeting on Fibre Animals

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Following the tradition of previous events, the Symposium will cover a broad range of topics related to the breeding, husbandry and sustainability of South American domestic and wild Camelids, wool sheep, Cashmere and Angora goats, Angora rabbit and all other fibre mammals in Europe and throughout the World.

The invitation to...

Kyrgyz Republic hosts high-level meeting on sustainable mountain development in New York

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A high-level meeting on sustainable mountain development was organized by the delegation of the Kyrgyz Republic jointly with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the eve of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 19 September...

FAO and Slow Food renew collaboration to improve smallholder livelihoods

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FAO and Slow Food International have launched a new partnership to help mountain and island communities develop more resilient economies and create conditions that improve the livelihoods of local people.

Under a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (2022-2024), the two organisations will work together to support smallholder farmers, forest dwellers and fisherfolk...

Bringing mountain producers to Terra Madre

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In the framework of a collaboration with UNDP’s Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), the Mountain Partnership Secretariat will be supporting a series of workshops at Terra Madre, Turin, Italy.

Eleven delegates of eight producer organizations, coming from six countries (Guatemala, Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda) will participate...