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...

The University of Central Asia (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) has been studying pasture resource management, impacts of climate change on local community livelihoods, and resilience assessment in Kyrgyzstan. Pastoralism...

Sustainable development and climate resilience in mountains was at the heart of a virtual dialogue organized by the Central Himalayan Institute for Nature and Applied Research (CHINAR) and the Global...

On 21 and 23 July 2020, The Mountain Partnership (MP) in collaboration with Italian organic retailer and distributor EcorNaturaSì, held interactive webinars in English and Spanish for partners of the...

Located deep in the valley of Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas is a centuries-old village called Marling. Only the local natives or true wanderers reach this far into the mountains,...

Encarnación and Maria Rodríguez have owned and operated “Finca Orgánica Maria y Chon”, their small family farm in the Santa Fe mountains of Panama, for more than 40 years. They have...

Registration for the GROW Summer School, “Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate” is now open. The summer school will be held online from 15 – 25 September 2020. One of the world’s greatest...

Article reposted from Geneva Solutions, written by Kyra Dupont From the Alps to the Andes and Malawi's Mount Mulanje, mountain people face common problems. The Mountain Partnership links them in a...

This is a repost of an article written by Maria Rowena A. Buena, published on Organic Without Boundaries, a blog by IFOAM – Organics International The Senate in the Philippines has approved a bill...

Presented by the Government of Malawi, with the Mountain Partnership, and the Governments of Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, Italy and Switzerland Held on the sidelines of the 2020 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable...

Small groups of women producers in Kyrgyzstan live on what was once the Silk Road - the network of trade routes that enabled cultural exchange between Asia and Europe for centuries....

Scroll down to read the Spanish version The goldenberry - also known as aguaymanto, Cape gooseberry, uvilla, topotope, coztomate, Peruvian ground cherry, pogapoga, wild tomato or tomatillo – has been part of the cultural fabric of the Peruvian Andes fo

New agreement promotes fair-trade of unique, organic products and conserves biodiversity EcorNaturaSí and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, hosted by FAO, today joined forces to better the lives of people living in...

Born in the village of Gatlang in the Rasuwa district, Nepal, Sanjaya Tamang is one of his hometown’s youngest farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs. Situated at an altitude of more than 2 200 metres in the north of Kathmandu, bordering China, Gatlang 

Lalita Rokaya is a 25 year old farmer living in the Sinja valley of the Jumla district, one of the most remote mountain areas in Nepal. She lives there with her parents and three siblings in their small village. She studies part time, but spends most of

Mountain Partnership member Euromontana has released an up-to-date study on the implementation within the European Union of the “mountain product” term. The “mountain product” optional quality term helps communicate the many values of...