FAO launches funding mechanism for mountains

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 Issue 92 – Month 5 – Year 2016

The May issue of Peak to Peak opens with a story about the launch of a Mountain Facility, or funding mechanism, to address the rising threat of hunger in the mountain areas of developing countries. The newsletter also reports...

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Submissions for UN report on mountains

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The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is currently compiling summaries of the most important results of mountain development activities since July 2013 for the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) Report on Sustainable Mountain Development.

Now requested every three years, the MPS and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,...

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MP members to form renewable energy group

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The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), an initiative focused on providing access to energy and education opportunities to remote mountainous communities, proposes forming a Mountain Partnership Energy Access Group.

Mountain Partnership members concerned with access to renewable energy sources in the mountains are invited to take part. Communities that are...

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Summer course to focus on managing mountain resources

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 Issue 91 – Month 4 – Year 2016

The April issue of Peak to Peak reveals that this year’s IPROMO course will focus on managing mountain resources and diversities – the role of protected areas, in Ormea, Italy, in July. The newsletter also shares calls for mountain-related...

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Himalayan expedition to light up monastery

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The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) has announced that its fourth expedition will be to Ladakh, India, in June 2016. This year the carefully selected team will light up the 2550-year-old Phuktal Gonpa Monastery, built in a natural cave in Zanskar in the northern part of the country.

The...

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Solar cookers in Tajik mountain valley

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Little Earth visited last autumn several villages of the Bartang valley, in the western Pamirs in Tajikistan, where the organization carries out its activities on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. In Nisur Village they met and interviewed the heads of households who received solar parabolic cookers last summer. What...

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