MP member wins sustainability award

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On June 2015, Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT) won the 2015 National Energy Globe Award for Ecuador in recognition of its commitment to creating sustainable livelihoods in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Energy Globe, the world award for sustainability, recognized FCT's program to promote pasture restoration on private land bordering Sangay National Park...

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La agricultura de montaña es agricultura familiar

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La agricultura de montaña adopta muchas formas -tan diversas como los paisajes de montaña del mundo– pero continúa siendo en gran medida una agricultura familiar. Estas actividades agrícolas de montaña han alimentado y sustentado tradicionalmente a familias individuales aunque, hoy en día, han comenzado a expandirse cada vez más hacia...

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Mountains of opportunities in new European policy

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Euromontana, a European multi-sectoral association for cooperation and development of mountain areas, has issued the third edition of its newsletter “A New CAP: Mountains of Opportunities,” summarizing the recently concluded European mountain convention held in Bilbao, Spain, from 22 to 24 October 2014.

The newsletter features the...

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Celebrating International Mountain Day this year?

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This year on 11 December, the annual celebration of International Mountain Day (IMD) will highlight the valuable contributions of mountain family farming to livelihoods. IMD will be one of the concluding events of the International Year of Family Farming, as 2014 was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United...

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Mountain development course delves into farming

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Issue 71 - Month 7 - Year 2014

Our new issue of Peak to Peak opens with news about the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO). We also look at new MP members and activities, see what members...

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Mountain development course delves into farming

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Twenty-four mountain development practitioners and researchers from 21 countries learned about promoting sustainable farming in mountain regions from 8 to 18 July 2014 in Ormea, Italy.  The ten-day course, called the International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO),  was organized by the Mountain Partnership...

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