Not many people start their business by meeting a hermit in a bar. Ilaria lives in the small mountain hamlet of Garulla, Italy, located at 870 m in Monti Sibillini...
Local organizations and smallholder farmer communities in Peru are taking action to improve water regulation and sanitation in Andean forest landscapes and exchange knowledge with other districts. Communities in Ccerabamba,...
“There emerges from (bees’) bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people” (The Qur’an, 16:69).
Beekeeper Damira Kampabekova shares this passage from the Qur’an. It shows...
The effects of climate change in mountains is the main topic of the thirteenth IPROMO course, which opened in a completely virtual format on 28 September 2020 and runs until...
Another 30 young professionals and researchers join the ranks of the GROW alumni network as the third annual Summer School on Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate concludes. This year, participants...
The Mountain Wilderness organization strives not only to preserve the natural environment of the world's mountains and deserts, but also to maintain the quality of the experience for visitors to...
The role of working animals in mountains and their role in the current climate change scenario was at the heart of an event held by Mountain Partnership (MP) members during...
On 21 September, the first meeting was organized in the framework of “Enhancing agri-food value chains to increase resilience of mountain communities,” a new joint initiative between the Mountain Partnership...
The third annual Summer School “GROW - Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate” opens online with 30 participants attending from 18 countries. The two-week course equips practitioners with the necessary tools,...
Can artistic expressions such as music help generate greater environmental awareness and add to ongoing scientific efforts? Can art motivate subjects to change their habits and thus provoke concrete actions...
The Adaptation at Altitude (AaA) programme has recently launched an online space centred on climate change adaptation in mountains. The virtual space is meant for those working on the topic to share findings,...
The Darjeeling Himalaya area is a mountainous region in the northwest of West Bengal, India. The Darjeeling Himalaya is known for its rich diversity of moths, yet few studies have...
NGO Little Earth continues to help the most vulnerable families in the mountain communities of the Pamirs in Tajikistan. At the end of July 2020, 46 families received sets of...
Around mid August, every year, stockbreeders of Ordino, one of the highest parishes of the Principality of Andorra, celebrate a blessing of their animals. The breeders, around that date, transfer...
The “Alps 2020” expedition will conclude the archival photography project “On the Trail of the Glaciers” and will take place in the Italian, French, Swiss and Austrian Alps between mid-July and mid-September...
The University of Central Asia (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) has been studying pasture resource management, impacts of climate change on local community livelihoods, and resilience assessment in Kyrgyzstan.
Pastoralism...
Sustainable development and climate resilience in mountains was at the heart of a virtual dialogue organized by the Central Himalayan Institute for Nature and Applied Research (CHINAR) and the Global...
On 21 and 23 July 2020, The Mountain Partnership (MP) in collaboration with Italian organic retailer and distributor EcorNaturaSì, held interactive webinars in English and Spanish for partners of the...
Located deep in the valley of Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas is a centuries-old village called Marling. Only the local natives or true wanderers reach this far into the mountains,...
Encarnación and Maria Rodríguez have owned and operated “Finca Orgánica Maria y Chon”, their small family farm in the Santa Fe mountains of Panama, for more than 40 years. They have...
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