Malawi will form a national committee on mountains, decided the participants of an inception workshop on sustainable mountain development (SMD) held on 29 September 2017. The participants also agreed that...
The deadline to enter the #MountainsMatter video contest has been extended from 20 October to 3 November 2017. From Brazil to France, Nepal to Tanzania, people around the world are...
Food security is a key concern for sustainable mountain development (SMD). The journal Mountain Research and Development is looking for papers that present validated insights into development solutions for reducing...
Pastoralists are a collective of several hundred million livestock keepers whose unique livelihoods face challenges that are often linked to the environments in which they live and to the mobility...
The publication Life in the Mountains: Environmental and Cultural Diversity of Development Models was launched this month in Dushanbe, Tajikistan during an event organized by the University of Central Asia...
For the latest issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD), guest editors G. Gratzer and W. Keeton invited researchers to reflect on the role of mountain forests in...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), jointly with the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Population and Environment (MoPE), will be hosting a series of events on air pollution...
To bring attention to the plight of mountain peoples and ecosystems for International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is...
The Penelope Gandhi Mission is a project carried out by the University of the Mountains, a member of the Mountain Partnership, to support the protection and revitalization of the traditional...
On 9 September 2017, Karinjo DeVore, President of the Aspen International Mountain Foundation (AIMF) and member of the Mountain Partnership Steering Committee, met with Matt Rands, President of the Utah...
The Asian Regional Land Forum of the International Land Coalition (ILC) convened on 12-15 September 2017 for the first time in Central Asia, hosted by Kyrgyzstan. This edition of the...
Bursting with stories about newly inscribed World Heritage Sites, the construction of roads in wilderness areas, retreating glaciers and more, the 95th issue of the Mountain Protected Areas Update provides...
Mountain ecosystems in Costa Rica are factories of water. In July 2016, the Environmental Unit of the Municipality of La Union, Costa Rica managed the project "Promoting and facilitating the...
A new online course on mountain ecosystems and water management will begin on 13 September 2017. The course, titled “Ecosistemas de montaña y gestión del agua”, is organized by the...
Members of the Mountain Partnership are invited to attend the Mountain Partnership Global Meeting, which will be held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters...
An “Energy Café” has opened in the remote village of Nisur, located in the upper part of the Bartang Valley, in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. The Café will provide...
The side event “Practitioner’s Lab on community-based conservation in the Central Tien Shan for the protection of snow leopards and their prey species” took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 24...
The International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Forum, a high-level event on the conservation of the endangered snow leopard hosted by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr Almazbek Atambayev, opens...
Dr Janet Colvin, Interim Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah Valley University (UVU), discussed cooperation between the state of Utah, United States, and Kyrgyzstan, with a...
Renewable energy is the future of Argentina, said the National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions of Argentina. President of Argentina Mauricio Macri has promoted the strengthening of...
