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Pragya Seeds Nepal hosts Zero Waste workshop

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The workshop and training "Zero Waste, Zero Warming" was jointly organized by the District Development Committee of Dhunche, Rasuwa, Nepal and Pragya Seeds Nepal (PGSN) on 1-3 December 2016. Through the event, PGSN provided communities, waste collectors, journalists, donor agencies and government representatives with practical alternative solutions for...

Mountain Research and Development issue online

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The articles in this issue of Mountain Research and Development derive from papers presented at the 2015 Perth III “Mountains of Our Future Earth” conference and align themselves with research themes of Future Earth. The papers feature a Canadian software tool to compare mountain photos for environmental monitoring,...

Online mountain assessment tool launched

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The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) Program of Future Earth launched a new version of the GMBA Mountain Portal on 11 December, International Mountain Day, along with the GMBA mountain inventory. The GMBA Mountain Portal is a resource developed by Map of Life that...

Winner of #MountainsMatter photo contest

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Maryam Farzami of Afghanistan has won the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) International Mountain Day #MountainsMatter photo competition. Her photo of an Afghan mother holding her infant daughter was taken in a remote mountain village in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.

FAO launched the photo contest in the run-up...

International Mountain Day (IMD)

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International Mountain Day (IMD) is an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of mountains, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands. Celebrate with us!

This year, the theme for IMD is ‘Mountain Cultures:...

Honouring the mountains of the world together

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The 11 of December marks the day for celebrating mountains. The day is a chance to reflect on how we all depend on mountains, for water, food, biodiversity, timber and energy, but it is also an opportunity to highlight the plight of mountain peoples, among the world’s poorest and hungriest, and focus...