Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016eventSlow Food’s "Terra Madre Salone del Gusto", or Mother Earth's Fair of Flavours, will be held on 22-26 September 2016 in Turin, Italy. Every two years, Terra Madre Salone del Gusto brings chefs, scientists, food producers, students, designers, farmers and politicians together to work toward a food system...
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MP Products launched at Terra MadrenewsThe Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) will be presenting the Mountain Partnership Products Initiative at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto. This initiative is designed to promote mountain products and empower mountain smallholders and producers in developing countries. The initiative will be presented during the session “Living in the mountains”, taking place in...
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Enrolment for online mountain course now opennewsEnrolment is open until 3 October for an online refresher course on “Mountain law: strategy, tools and governance” that will run from 10 October to 3 December. The course is jointly organized by Fondazione Montagne Italia, the Interdepartmental Centre Ge.S.Di.Mont. and the University of Milan’s Department of Agricultural...
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Landscape experts met in the European AlpsnewsAround 200 participants from the Americas, Asia and Europe met at the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) 2016 conference in Innsbruck and Seefeld, Austria to discuss the past, present and future of rural mountain landscapes. Hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research...
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Clean climbing in the AlpsnewsMountain Wilderness, a member of the Mountain Partnership, tries to promote an approach to climbing that is more respectful of the environment. With this in mind, Mountain Wilderness Switzerland organized a "clean climbing" session without fixed security devices on 15-18 September place at the Zwinglipasshütte in Saint-Gallen, Switzerland....
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Drying causes Mount Kenya glacier to meltnewsA study published in Cryosphere earlier this year has found that the largest glacier on Mount Kenya, the Lewis Glacier, is melting because of decreasing atmospheric moisture rather than increasing temperatures. In the tropical climate of East Africa, glaciers are an unexpected, yet vitally important part of the ecosystem. Since...
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