The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) is accepting nominations for its global stewardship award, the UIAA Mountain Protection Award.
The award aims to highlight tourism activities that promote conservation of...
Mountain Partnership member Active Remedy has contributed to a United Nations Analytical Brief on water security.Released in March to coincide with World Water Day, the brief explains issues of concern...
The first workshop in the preparation of a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on “Sustainable management of mountain forests and land resources of the Kyrgyz Republic...
Experts from Asian mountains committed themselves to working together for social and ecological resilience to climate change at the Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in Asian Mountains in...
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are planning a publication on...
The Association of Forest and Land Users of Kyrgyzstan organized a competition of children’s drawings in the remote mountainous village of Kochkorka for the first International Forest Day, 21 March...
Highly endangered Bearded Vultures are dining out at special ‘vulture restaurants’ as part of conservation efforts in the Maloti and Drakensberg mountains.
The restaurants provide animal carcasses for the birds to...
A new issue of Mountain Research and Development is now available online.
Topics examined include adaptive capacity in hill farming, institutional and ecological aspects of rangeland management, geospatial selection of reforestation...
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) invite well-validated and sound analyses of approaches to, and conditions for, initiating gender-positive transformation in mountain...
Mountain Partnership member Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee has received a United Nations award for empowering coffee-growers, primarily women, to improve their lives and their children’s futures.
The American fair trade company...
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has launched a $9.8 million five-year conservation strategy for the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot, which comprises mountainous areas stretching from Saudi Arabia to Mozambique.
The...
The growing global demand for medicinal and aromatic plants could help drive Nepal’s green economy, according to a new study from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboraion with...
Sweet apples grown in the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh are gradually losing their taste as a result of climate change, according to reports.
Farmers of the remote Mechuka valley in...
African members of the Mountain Partnership have agreed to create a new Mountain Partnership African Champions Committee to move the region's sustainable mountain development agenda forward.
At a regional meeting of...
Applications are now open for a four-week training programme on capacity building in Himalayan glaciology organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the auspices of the National Mission for...
A project to improve food security among vulnerable rural groups coordinated by Mountain Partnership member the International Potato Centre (CIP) is underway in four Latin American countries.
In the Andes, the...
The Revue de Géographie Alpine /Journal of Alpine Research, one of the oldest geographical journals in circulation, is celebrating its centenary in 2013 with a competition for young researchers working...
African members of the Mountain Partnership will meet in Kigali, Rwanda on 20 February for a regional meeting on the sustainable development of Africa’s mountains.
Entitled Enhancing the Mountain Partnership in...
Mountain Partnership members the Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF) and the Telluride Institute have created a Mountain Partnership regional hub for North America. The aim of the hub is to...
Mountain Partnership member Soluciones Prácticas (Practical Action) has signed an agreement with Asociación Integral San Antonio de Qutapiqiña to work on a project to strengthen local economic development and natural...
