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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...

Quality term for mountain products in EU

05.03.2015

Entitled “Quality from the mountains – Prosperity for people and territories”, the IXth European Mountain Convention took place in Bilbao, Spain, on 22–24 October 2014, organized by Euromontana...

Andean ‘dream maker’ on Japanese TV

04.03.2015

Dr Bibiana Vilá, the Mountain Partnership focal point of Argentinean environmental conservation group, VICAM: Vicuñas, Camélidos y Ambiente, was featured in a Japanese television program among the winners...

Call for papers on the Himalayas

03.03.2015

The Bhutan Ecological Society would like to invite all interested national and international scientists and practitioners to submit their manuscripts to [email protected], for consideration for publication in the 2015 issue...

Italian museum documents Bolivian mountains

02.03.2015

The second research mission of the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (the National Mountain Museum) to Bolivia is underway. This time its journey is focused on the centre west area, in...

Mountain Partnership Steering Committee meets

26.02.2015

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee (SC) met at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 17 -18 February. This was the first formal meeting of the SC that was established and...

Utah students promote mountain agenda

24.02.2015

Jesler Molina, Andrew Allen, and Jared Reni, members of the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition of student clubs at Utah Valley University (UVU) visited Washington, DC,...