The Government of Peru approved the formation of a technical group to work on mountains as part of the country’s National Committee on Biological Diversity, or CONADIB, during a special...
The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC) was established in 1890 with the aim of promoting mountain recreation. The club owns considerable assets including backcountry huts, and has been increasing its...
Mountain Ecosystems: Towards a Multidisciplinary and Sustainable Land Management is the name of the training course that the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), or the Tropical Agricultural...
Sporty and artsy, young and old; traditional and innovative; farmers and gamers, we look for it all! Show us what active and vibrant Alps mean to you. Capture the everyday...
The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was invited to participate in the International Roundtable Meeting ‘Man and Biosphere’, which...
In 2014, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), formalized the "Guidelines to Facilitate the Implementation of National Forestry Development Plan (NDFP) Costa Rica during the period between 2014 and...
Lobbying for mountain research with the European funding agencies is one of the current projects of the CH-AT coordination office in Bern. In two meetings in Vienna and Bern, the...
‘Mountain products hold immense economic potential to boost sustainable development in mountain regions,’ concluded a group of experts convened by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the Food and Agriculture...
The Alps offer great potential for renewable energy production. But this simultaneously increases the pressure on nature. The partners in the international recharge.green project have found ways to ensure this...
The Permanent Representatives of Argentina and Italy to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) co-hosted a meeting to increase support for the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) in Rome, Italy, on...
The 25-member Emergency Response Team of Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC) is engaged in emergency relief support including in Nepal, following the 25 April 2015 earthquake, in...
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) reflects on its key achievements in promoting sustainable mountain development (SMD) last year in its 2014 annual report. Using mountain climbing as an analogy to...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Task Force on Geo-hazards continued to map and assess hazards created by landslides, rock falls and avalanches in the aftermath of the...
At a ceremony at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, USA, on 6 May, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, FAO Assistant Director-General for Forestry, announced the appointment of His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön...
The Regional consultative meeting of the Major Groups and Stakeholders in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015 of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was held on 7 May 2015...
Mountains 2016 is an international event about the sustainable development of mountains in Europe and the world, based on science, knowledge and innovation. It will bring together scientists, farmers, decision-makers,...
Mountain Wilderness Catalonia will organize a meeting for the defence of silence in the mountains on Sunday 17 May 2015 at Prat de Cadi (Cerdanya) in the Catalonian Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain.In a world...
In Montefortino, a breathtakingly beautiful mountain village in Central Italy, Alice Alessandrini started a mountain food label in 2012. Her pasta making business ‘Regina dei Sibillini’ produces wheat in the...
Utah Valley University has funds to bring six women entrepreneurs from mountain nations to Utah in October 2015. Together with the International University of Kyrgyzstan, UVU will host the Fourth International...
The Khatmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) would like to express its deep sympathy for all those who have been affected by the recent earthquake affecting Nepal and ICIMOD’s regional...
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