Key messages: Mountain ecosystems are home to more than one billion people, nearly 15% of the world’s population, and provide essential services, notably water regulation, for downstream areas. People living...

The Department of Agriculture of Andorra has agreed to offer strategic support to the Secretariat of the Mountain Partnership, officially becoming a ‘Champion for Mountains’. The Principality of Andorra is already...

Mountain Partnership (MP) member the Central Himalayan Institute for Nature & Applied Research (CHINAR) recently began coordinating two new programmes in the Indian Himalaya to connect people with nature. CHINAR initiated...

The Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) is investing in the development of young rural leaders, key actors for the sustainability of the mountain forests in...

About 300 rural farmers in Nepal have been trained on intensive planting techniques thanks to Mountain Partnership (MP) member EcoHimal Nepal (EHN). The trainings, which were suitable for both beginning...

The landscape approach for enhancing mountain resilience was under discussion at the 2019 International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) in Ormea and Pieve...

The Central Himalayan Institute for Nature & Applied Research (CHINAR) has been a Mountain Partnership (MP) member since 2017. The team advocates for sustainable mountain livelihoods in the Indian Himalayas....

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS), Slow Food and the Philippines’ Department of Tourism-Cordillera Administrative Region (DoT–CAR) have jointly developed a pilot program called “Food & Tourism for Mountain Development”. The...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) hosted a side event, titled “Policy Reforms for Mountains in Agenda 2030”, at the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2019 on 19 June in Incheon, Republic of...

The Mountain Partnership (MP) will be hosting a side event at the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week (APFW2019) in Incheon, Republic of Korea, titled “Policy Reforms for Mountains in the 2030 Agenda...

The Corporación Ambiental Empresarial (CAEM) organized the International Seminar on Environmental Risk Management on Friday 7 June 2019 in Bogotá, Colombia. CAEM presented to 328 participants from companies and municipal...

The results of the Mountain Partnership member survey are now available on the MP website, together with the report produced by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS).] The survey was carried...

The Association for Mountain Studies (CRYOSANABRIA) has organized the first training of a newly established Gaelic football team in the mountainous Sanabria region of northern Spain. The workshop was led...

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee met on 26-27 March 2019 at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. This was the third meeting...

The Chirripò National Park, established in 1975, is the first protected wildlife area in Costa Rica to implement a Non-Essential Services Concession (CSNE). Managed by the National System of Conservation...

The Mountain Partnership uses social media to promote, advocate and raise awareness about mountain issues all around the world. As well as shed light on mountain communities, that would not...

Submit your case studies for the publication “Agro-ecological and organic farming practices in mountain areas” (exact title TBD). In order to raise awareness about sustainable agricultural farming practices in mountain...

The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC) Director, Dharmalingam Venugopal has advised the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Banwarilal Purohit to endorse a law to protect the mountains in the southern Indian state Tamil...

The International conference on “Mountains: Cultures, Landscapes and Biodiversity at Western Caspian University in Baku, Azerbaijan highlighted innovative solutions to problems that are increasingly threatening the world’s most impressive mountainous...

Mountain Partnership member, MiratecArts has launched an international mountain photography contest with the theme, “Mountains and Snow”. Finalists will be announced 11 December 2019 and will take part in an exhibition...