A group of Bartang women participated in a study tour in the Pamir mountains to learn about natural resource management, tourism and vocational training. The four-day study tour in Lower...

The Regional Initiative on Zero Hunger in Asia and the Pacific has identified the “strengthening of mountain agriculture and food systems” as one of the key programmatic work areas. The...

The future of Indigenous and Community Conserved areas (ICCAs) was discussed by a variety of stakeholders including community members, NGOs, donor organizations and academics at the ICCA Consortium in Bishkek,...

An international conference organized by the General Council for Agricultural Development of Morocco and the French General Council of Agriculture on the theme “How to address development challenges in mountains”...

The Mountain Partnership’s Framework for Action was presented by Yuka Makino, Mountain Partnership Secretariat during the Global Perspectives session of the World Mountain Forum 2018 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Countries on...

The Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS) conference took place in Bolzano, Italy from 17 - 19 October 2018. GLOMOS is a joint initiative between EURAC Research and the United Nations...

The Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics™ Forum 2018 will take place from 1- 2 November 2018 in Assam, India. This year’s theme will focus on “Rural Futures: Social-Environmental-Economic Interdependence” and is organized...

The fourth World Mountain Forum (WMF 2018) took place from 23-26 October 2018, in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz Republic. Approximately 300 participants attended the meeting, which addressed the overarching theme, ‘Mountains...

On October 5 2018, the Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition at Utah Valley University (UVU), co-hosted Mr. Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov, the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations...

The first course of “The Swat Project,” took place last month, where instructors of Mountain Wilderness International (Asian Desk) went to Pakistan to run an eco-compatible mountaineering course for young...

From 25 to 27 September 2018, nearly 200 mountain stakeholders from all over Europe gathered in Vatra Dornei, Romania, to participate in the European Mountain Convention on “Cultural Heritage as...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a #MountainsMatter Photo Contest in celebration of International Mountain Day that is observed every year on 11 December 2018. Participants from around the world...

The first Summer School on Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate ended this week. Held at FAO in Rome, Italy, the course hosted high profile speakers from NaturaSi, IFOAM Organics International and...

Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)’s fourth brochure, called “Collection of Examples of Social Innovation in Mountain areas” has just been published, in collaboration with Euromontana and SIMRA partners. These...

A tourist map of Karkaraly mountains published by the Avalon Historico-Geographical Society in the framework of the project "Mapping as a Tool for Ecotourism Development in Kazakhstan" with the financial support...

The Mountain Partnership training programme, IPROMO in 2017 inspired a collaboration between the chairman Danilo Godone and Godfrey Mfiti, a participant from Malawi, and a promising idea concerning the management...

The Summer school on Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate opened on Monday 26 at FAO, Headquarters in Rome. The course focuses on the importance of biodiversity in agriculture, with particular...

The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) has released new versions of its Mountain inventory and to it’s Mountain Portal. The Mountain Portal is an interactive web platform provided by the Global...

Mountain agriculture and how the promotion of mountain products can improve the lives of the mountain communities was discussed at the conference “Mountain producers: preserving tradition, promoting innovation”, held at...

The Global Development Network (GDN), together with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Oxfam, GIZ India, UN Environment and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...