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Mountain agrobiodiversity: Contribution to the sustainable development of mountain areas

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Covering around one quarter of the world's land surface, mountains host about half of the world's biodiversity hotspots and 30 percent of all Key Biodiversity Areas, as well as vital genetic resources for locally adapted crops and livestock. Mountain ecosystems provide important ecosystem services to billions of people living downstream, such as...

Mountain Biodiversity 2002-2022: Achievements and next challenges at global and regional level

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In 2002, the United Nations General Assembly called on governments, national and international organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to make voluntary contributions in accordance with the Economic and Social Council’s guidelines for International Years and anniversaries, and to lend other forms of support to the International Year of...

Cryosphere and related hazards in High Mountain Asia in a changing climate

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The Cryosphere Initiative, with UNESCO, Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), the Government of Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian Regional Glaciological Centre in Almaty, Kazakhstan, are organizing the conference ‘Cryosphere and related hazards in High Mountain Asia in a changing climate.’

The international conference...

International Mountain Conference 2022

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The International Mountain Conference 2022 (IMC2022), to be hosted by the University of Innsbruck, will support mountain research and exchange among disciplines to gather and shape all available knowledge.

Photo: ©Davide De Luca

2022 UN report on mountains now available

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The 2022 United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) report on sustainable mountain development is now available online in the six UN languages.

Every three years, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the mandated lead UN agency on mountains, together with the Mountain Partnership Secretariat is tasked to prepare the UNSG report on...