The Mountain Research Institute (MRI) is organizing an international photography competition to coincide with the international conference “Perth III: Mountains of our Future Earth" to be held in Perth, Scotland, on...
On June 2015, Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT) won the 2015 National Energy Globe Award for Ecuador in recognition of its commitment to creating sustainable livelihoods in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Energy Globe, the...
How can research and university studies be linked to sustainable development and job creation in the mountain areas of Italy? A seminar to discuss this issue was hosted in Rome...
The relationship between migration and environmental and climatic changes is a crucial yet understudied factor influencing mountain livelihoods in the global South, states a recently published research article entitled ‘Migration...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) continued to support, coordinate and rally the broad regional and international teams in the ongoing post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts of the Government of Nepal..
How to promote mountain products and the benefits they can bring to mountain communities were among the topics discussed in an international conference in Bucharest in May.The conference "The quality...
The annual International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain areas (IPROMO) was launched today by Giorgio Ferraris the Mayor of Ormea, Rosalaura Romeo of the Mountain...
Understanding Mountain Soils, a publication offering technical insight on the sustainable management of mountain soils, was launched yesterday during the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly in Rome at the Food...
After providing relief support materials in the Kavre, and Sindhupalchok districts, the Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Center, Nepal (KIRDARC) is now heavily engaged in post-quake recovery process. KIRDARC...
As the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enter the final stages of debate before being adopted in September 2015, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and members are engaging in a social media...
On 12 June 2015, Mountain Partnership Secretariat Coordinator Thomas Hofer met with Nepali members and members who have offices in Nepal to discuss a coordinated response to the devastating 25...
In his first official visit as a Mountain Partnership (MP) Ambassador, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang took time from his pilgrimage to the Andes for a meeting in Lima,...
On the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is pleased to launch the ICT for Mountain Development Award for the second consecutive...
This year’s Universal Exposition, better known as Expo, in Milan, Italy, featured a week dedicated solely to mountains on 4–11 June 2015. Mountain Week was a series of events about...
The High Level International Conference on the Implementation of the International Decade of Water for Life (2005-2015), held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 9-10 June 2015, included a reference to mountains...
Carbon markets and climate finance payments are being used to incentivize the mitigation of CO2 arising from anthropogenic land-use change in forests, marine ecosystems, and lowland grasslands. However, no such consideration...
More than 120 representatives of organizations from across Central Asia and from around the world whose work is dedicated to the concerns of mountain societies and environments, gathered on 8...
"The farmers in Nepal are doing extremely well in their honeybee enterprises and niche product making despite extremely challenging situations in their remote locations. When they can perform well regardless...
"We need to change the way we produce food," Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said today in a World Environment Day speech...
The birthplace of many civilisations, the sea, is surrounded by three continents: a sea among lands. Mountainous peaks rise here and there as the backdrop of these heavily populated costal...
