The University of Central Asia (UCA), through its Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), is offering fellowships to strengthen the capacity of researchers from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic to...

The Agency of Development Initiatives (ADI) is stepping up a private partnership project working with women’s self-help groups to supply organic valerian from Kyrgyzstan to Europe.Two years in to the...

The Ev-K2-CNR Committee has recruited a yeti to help explain climate change in mountains to a wide audience. So far six video episodes have been released on YouTube showing Alfred the...

The Alpine Convention has welcomed a new secretary general, Markus Reiterer, who took up his new role at the start of July. The 45-year-old lawyer and diplomat is the first Austrian...

Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company has received a major international award for its innovative development work in mountain coffee communities throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas. Founder and CEO Dean Cycon...

Fundación Agreste is working with Kimberly-Clark Argentina to revitalize the town of Paso Grande in Argentina’s Conlara Valley by providing access to safe drinking water and improving livelihoods. In addition to...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has entered into a five-year partnership with a leading Indian consumer goods company to promote herbal medicinal and aromatic plants from the...

The Agency of Development Initiatives (ADI) is launching educational materials on nutrition and food processing for women in vulnerable households in the Kyrgyz Republic, with support from the University of...

Possibly the largest multi-disciplinary montane research effort to date in southern Africa has been launched. The Eastern Highlands Initiative (EHI) came into being earlier this year through a series of meetings...

The Mountain Research Initiative has launched a final call for registration for its Key Contact Workshop, which will be held in Minneapolis, USA, on 3 August 2013. Held ahead of the...

The Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) has launched an online forum for members of the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee. African members of the Mountain Partnership agreed to create a new...

Mountain Research and Development (MRD) has issued a call for papers on “Family Farming in Mountains: Institutional and Organizational Arrangements in the Face of Globalization” to coincide with the UN...

EvK2Cnr has begun its first scientific mission to study permafrost in the Karakorum mountain range, where its estimates suggest that the permanently frozen soil occupies an area double the size...

FAO and the Kyrgyz Agency for Environment and Forest Protection presented preparations for a project on sustainable management of Kyrgyz high-elevation forests and farmland during a seminar on forest preservation in...

Elbegzaya (Zaya) Batjargal, programme officer for the Mountain Partnership in Central Asia, has been awarded an honorary diploma by the Kyrgyz Government. Receiving the award during a joint celebration of World...

The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain range in China has been declared a natural World Heritage Site at a World Heritage Committee meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Mountain Partnership member the International Union...

The Kenya Forest Service has won a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) award for its implementation of a sustainable livelihood development project in the country's largest montane forest.The service received...

Organizers of the High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation that will take place 20-22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, are calling for abstracts.Scholars from across the world are invited to...

The Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Andes Network met in Quito, Ecuador, in May to add new monitoring sites to GLORIA’s global database. The purpose of GLORIA is...

The Ev-K2-CNR Committee has issued a call for posters from young researchers and students for its High Summit 2013 International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change taking place in Lecco,...