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Bridging tradition and innovation: GIAHS workshop explores new paths for sustainable agriculture

Bridging tradition and innovation: GIAHS workshop explores new paths for sustainable agriculture

19.09.2024

The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized a workshop on Traditional Knowledge and Innovation in Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. Representatives from seven GIAHS sites, spanning Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines and a virtual presence from Spain, convened to...

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‘Vulture restaurants’ among Maloti Drakensberg conservation efforts

‘Vulture restaurants’ among Maloti Drakensberg conservation efforts

19.03.2013

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...

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 New Mountain Research and Development issue online

New Mountain Research and Development issue online

18.03.2013

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...

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Call for papers on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains

Call for papers on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains

13.03.2013

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...

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$9.8 million  investment in Eastern Afromontane Hotspot

$9.8 million investment in Eastern Afromontane Hotspot

08.03.2013

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...

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UN award for fair trade coffee company

UN award for fair trade coffee company

08.03.2013

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...

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 Medicinal plant industry can boost green jobs growth in Nepal

Medicinal plant industry can boost green jobs growth in Nepal

06.03.2013

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...

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