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Mountain states of India hold fifth meeting

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The fifth edition of the Meet of the Mountain States, organized by the Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI) in New Delhi, India on 10 February 2017, focused on water security, skill development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the mountain states of the Indian Himalayan Region. The Meet was...

Mount Kenya Three Peaks Climb

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The Mount Kenya Trust (MKT) invites you to come and climb the three peaks of Mount Kenya to raise vital mountain conservation funds for the MKT, an NGO working to protect the wildlife, forest and people of Africa's second highest peak. The climbing options available include Lenana (non-technical),...

Mountain apricot producer wins exporter award

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The title of ‘Best exporter of Batken Region’ has been awarded to Mountain Partnership member Alysh Dan, a farmer cooperative located in the mountain village of Kara-bek, Batken Region, Kyrgyzstan. Alysh Dan won this title by participating in the national competition ‘Best exporters of 2016’ organized by the...

Call for applications for IPROMO 2017

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The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is pleased to announce the call for applications for the tenth International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas, or IPROMO, as the training programme on sustainable mountain development is better known. Jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food...

MP website temporarily unavailable on 15 March

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The Mountain Partnership website will be temporarily unavailable between the hours of 09.00-15.00 CET on Wednesday, 15 March 2017. During this time, the website will be migrated to a new web address: www.fao.org/mountain-partnership/. This process is expected to take approximately half-a-day, and the website will not be available during that...

New issue of MRD Journal available online

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The latest issue of the Mountain Research and Development (MRD) Journal offers 14 peer-reviewed articles focusing on questions related to water, risk reduction, energy, land use change, biodiversity, vegetation ecology, conservation, gender policy, ethnobotany, indigenous knowledge, economic opportunities, mobility and glacier monitoring—always with sustainable development in mind. This broad and...