This year 80 representatives attended the Central Asian Mountain Program (CAMP) Forum, the topic of which was Energy - Efficiency - Future: Access and innovation for mountain communities. Held on...
2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Cairngorms National Park, the largest in the UK.
Its mountain massif contains five of the UK's six highest mountains, its highest...
The MountEE sustainable public building project has released a video showcasing how attractive and ecologically sound architecture can be created in the mountain areas of Europe.
Mountain towns from Sweden to...
Dr Jane Pratt, a staunch advocate for mountain communities and environments, passed away on 12 August 2013 at home in Virginia, USA.
Pratt’s 35-year career in the field of sustainable development...
The Sustainable Development Forum Nagaland (SDFN) and India Water Portal have issued a call for contributions for their upcoming 3rd Mountain Development Summit that will take place in Kohima, India,...
The University of Central Asia (UCA), through its Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), is offering fellowships to strengthen the capacity of researchers from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to...
The Agency of Development Initiatives (ADI) is stepping up a private partnership project working with women’s self-help groups to supply organic valerian from Kyrgyzstan to Europe.Two years in to the...
The Ev-K2-CNR Committee has recruited a yeti to help explain climate change in mountains to a wide audience.
So far six video episodes have been released on YouTube showing Alfred the...
The Alpine Convention has welcomed a new secretary general, Markus Reiterer, who took up his new role at the start of July.
The 45-year-old lawyer and diplomat is the first Austrian...
Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company has received a major international award for its innovative development work in mountain coffee communities throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Founder and CEO Dean Cycon...
Fundación Agreste is working with Kimberly-Clark Argentina to revitalize the town of Paso Grande in Argentina’s Conlara Valley by providing access to safe drinking water and improving livelihoods.
In addition to...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has entered into a five-year partnership with a leading Indian consumer goods company to promote herbal medicinal and aromatic plants from the...
The Agency of Development Initiatives (ADI) is launching educational materials on nutrition and food processing for women in vulnerable households in the Kyrgyz Republic, with support from the University of...
Possibly the largest multi-disciplinary montane research effort to date in southern Africa has been launched.
The Eastern Highlands Initiative (EHI) came into being earlier this year through a series of meetings...
The Mountain Research Initiative has launched a final call for registration for its Key Contact Workshop, which will be held in Minneapolis, USA, on 3 August 2013.
Held ahead of the...
The Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) has launched an online forum for members of the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee.
African members of the Mountain Partnership agreed to create a new...
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) has issued a call for papers on “Family Farming in Mountains: Institutional and Organizational Arrangements in the Face of Globalization” to coincide with the UN...
EvK2Cnr has begun its first scientific mission to study permafrost in the Karakorum mountain range, where its estimates suggest that the permanently frozen soil occupies an area double the size...
FAO and the Kyrgyz Agency for Environment and Forest Protection presented preparations for a project on sustainable management of Kyrgyz high-elevation forests and farmland during a seminar on forest preservation in...
Elbegzaya (Zaya) Batjargal, programme officer for the Mountain Partnership in Central Asia, has been awarded an honorary diploma by the Kyrgyz Government.
Receiving the award during a joint celebration of World...
