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UN General Assembly declares 2025–2034 as Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences18.09.2024In a decisive step toward addressing one of the most pressing climate issues, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unanimously adopted a resolution on 13 August 2024, designating 2025 to 2034 as the "Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences". This landmark decision aims to tackle the growing challenges posed by... Read More » |
New Mountain Research and Development issue online18.03.2013A 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... Read More » |
Call for papers on Gender and Sustainable Development in Mountains13.03.2013Mountain 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... Read More » |
$9.8 million investment in Eastern Afromontane Hotspot08.03.2013The 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... Read More » |
UN award for fair trade coffee company08.03.2013Mountain 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... Read More » |
Medicinal plant industry can boost green jobs growth in Nepal06.03.2013The 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... Read More » |
Apples ‘souring’ due to climate change04.03.2013Sweet 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... Read More » |
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