On 12 June 2015, Mountain Partnership Secretariat Coordinator Thomas Hofer met with Nepali members and members who have offices in Nepal to discuss a coordinated response to the devastating 25...

In his first official visit as a Mountain Partnership (MP) Ambassador, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang took time from his pilgrimage to the Andes for a meeting in Lima,...

On the occasion of the World Environment Day (WED), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is pleased to launch the ICT for Mountain Development Award  for the second consecutive...

This year’s Universal Exposition, better known as Expo, in Milan, Italy, featured a week dedicated solely to mountains on 4–11 June 2015. Mountain Week was a series of events about...

The High Level International Conference on the Implementation of the International Decade of Water for Life (2005-2015), held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 9-10 June 2015, included a reference to mountains...

Carbon markets and climate finance payments are being used to incentivize the mitigation of CO2 arising from anthropogenic land-use change in forests, marine ecosystems, and lowland grasslands. However, no such consideration...

More than 120 representatives of organizations from across Central Asia and from around the world whose work is dedicated to the concerns of mountain societies and environments, gathered on 8...

"The farmers in Nepal are doing extremely well in their honeybee enterprises and niche product making despite extremely challenging situations in their remote locations. When they can perform well regardless...

"We need to change the way we produce food," Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said today in a World Environment Day speech...

The birthplace of many civilisations, the  sea, is surrounded by three continents: a sea among lands. Mountainous peaks rise here and there as the backdrop of these heavily populated costal...

The Government of Peru approved the formation of a technical group to work on mountains as part of the country’s National Committee on Biological Diversity, or CONADIB, during a special...

The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC) was established in 1890 with the aim of promoting mountain recreation. The club owns considerable assets including backcountry huts, and has been increasing its...

Mountain Ecosystems: Towards a Multidisciplinary and Sustainable Land Management is the name of the training course that the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), or the Tropical Agricultural...

Sporty and artsy, young and old; traditional and innovative; farmers and gamers, we look for it all! Show us what active and vibrant Alps mean to you. Capture the everyday...

The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was invited to participate in the International Roundtable Meeting ‘Man and Biosphere’, which...

In 2014, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MEE), formalized the "Guidelines to Facilitate the Implementation of National Forestry Development Plan (NDFP) Costa Rica during the period between 2014 and...

Lobbying for mountain research with the European funding agencies is one of the current projects of the CH-AT coordination office in Bern. In two meetings in Vienna and Bern, the...

‘Mountain products hold immense economic potential to boost sustainable development in mountain regions,’ concluded a group of experts convened by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) at the Food and Agriculture...

The Alps offer great potential for renewable energy production. But this simultaneously increases the pressure on nature. The partners in the international recharge.green project have found ways to ensure this...

The Permanent Representatives of Argentina and Italy to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) co-hosted a meeting to increase support for the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) in Rome, Italy, on...