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Greening Costa Rica mountain schools

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For several years the Hotel Villa Blanca management office, which also owns the José Miguel Alfaro Biological Research Centre situated on the hotel property in the Los Angeles district of San Ramon, which is located in the mountains west of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, has been working with...

Promoting mountain products in Bolivia

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Alongside small mountain producers in Bolivia and Slow Food agronomists, Alessia Vita, Programme Expert/Economist at the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, developed a strategy on 29 May – 1 June 2016 to improve the value chain of selected quality products with market potential to enhance the producers’ income and livelihoods. She...

Job available at University of Central Asia

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The University of Central Asia (UCA) is seeking a new senior research scientist for long-term socio-ecological system research and environmental monitoring. The duty station will be at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

UCA’s Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) is a university-wide research institute that generates, disseminates and promotes the application of knowledge...

Newsletter for West Africa mountains

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The Platform of Civil Society Organization for the Safeguard of Mountains (PSM) began a newsletter for green actors in seven countries of West Africa. PSM is a platform for the stability of mountains and the wellbeing of mountain communities in West Africa and includes some Mountain Partnership members.

With the release...

Alpine Summer School

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The Italian-French summer school, "Fundamental processes in geophysical fluid dynamics and the climate system," is organized each year by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR (Turin, Italy) and by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France). This year the ten-day course is dedicated to understanding...

Mountain pastures and livestock farming facing uncertainty: environmental, technical and socio-economic challenges

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (FAO-CIHEAM) subnetwork on Mountain Pastures aims to share scientific and technical knowledge on mountain pastures and livestock farming, for which, among other activities, it organizes biennial meetings in...