Slow Food initiatives from Austria, India, Italy, Morocco and the Philippines took the spotlight at a session moderated by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the 2020 Terra Madre Salone...

The thirteenth annual IPROMO training course came to a close today after two weeks of intense online lectures and discussion dedicated to sustainable mountain development. The 38 officers and experts...

The Mountain Partnership Products (MPP) initiative was presented as an example of identifying, developing and improving value chains of quality food products, cultivated in fragile ecosystems, for creating employment opportunities...

The theme of the International Mountain Day 2020 photo contest launched by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat on 6 October is mountain biodiversity. Did you know that about half of the world’s...

Over 30 members of the National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions of Argentina participated in an online capacity building workshop on Collect Earth organized by the Food...

Not many people start their business by meeting a hermit in a bar. Ilaria lives in the small mountain hamlet of Garulla, Italy, located at 870 m in Monti Sibillini...

Local organizations and smallholder farmer communities in Peru are taking action to improve water regulation and sanitation in Andean forest landscapes and exchange knowledge with other districts. Communities in Ccerabamba,...

“There emerges from (bees’) bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people” (The Qur’an, 16:69).  Beekeeper Damira Kampabekova shares this passage from the Qur’an. It shows...

The effects of climate change in mountains is the main topic of the thirteenth IPROMO course, which opened in a completely virtual format on 28 September 2020 and runs until...

Another 30 young professionals and researchers join the ranks of the GROW alumni network as the third annual Summer School on Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate concludes. This year, participants...

The Mountain Wilderness organization strives not only to preserve the natural environment of the world's mountains and deserts, but also to maintain the quality of the experience for visitors to...

The role of working animals in mountains and their role in the current climate change scenario was at the heart of an event held by Mountain Partnership (MP) members during...

On 21 September, the first meeting was organized in the framework of “Enhancing agri-food value chains to increase resilience of mountain communities,” a new joint initiative between the Mountain Partnership...

The third annual Summer School “GROW - Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate” opens online with 30 participants attending from 18 countries. The two-week course equips practitioners with the necessary tools,...

Can artistic expressions such as music help generate greater environmental awareness and add to ongoing scientific efforts? Can art motivate subjects to change their habits and thus provoke concrete actions...

The Adaptation at Altitude (AaA) programme has recently launched an online space centred on climate change adaptation in mountains. The virtual space is meant for those working on the topic to share findings,...

The Darjeeling Himalaya area is a mountainous region in the northwest of West Bengal, India. The Darjeeling Himalaya is known for its rich diversity of moths, yet few studies have...

NGO Little Earth continues to help the most vulnerable families in the mountain communities of the Pamirs in Tajikistan. At the end of July 2020, 46 families received sets of...

Around mid August, every year, stockbreeders of Ordino, one of the highest parishes of the Principality of Andorra, celebrate a blessing of their animals. The breeders, around that date, transfer...

The “Alps 2020” expedition will conclude the archival photography project “On the Trail of the Glaciers” and will take place in the Italian, French, Swiss and Austrian Alps between mid-July and mid-September...