The director-general of the Mountain Institute, Andrew Taber, has given a video interview about the work of the Institute and the mountain agenda. Taber discusses working to alleviate climate change and...

A scholarship towards the costs of participating in a part-time online MSc Sustainable Mountain Development offered by the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, is available for one student...

The development of a strategy focusing on sustainable tourism development is under way in the countries of the Carpathian Mountains – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and...

Kyrgyz Republic-based Mountain Partnership members met with national consultants working on a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on sustainable mountain forest management in Bishkek on 5...

Places are available for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development, an online, part-time interdisciplinary degree addressing social, environmental, economic, and professional development issues...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organizing a digital photo contest on the theme of 'Water and Life' to celebrate its 30th anniversary, coinciding with the United...

The Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI) is participating in BIO-THAW, an international project to model biodiversity and land use interactions under changing glacial water availability in the tropical high Andean wetlands of...

The Public Foundation Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP KG) is working on two projects in Kyrgyzstan. The first has opened 18 community-based kindergartens in villages of Osh province to support...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the ŠKODA Division of MAW Enterprises Private Limited have entered into a partnership to improve air quality in Nepal and raise...

Soluciones Prácticas has created the largest digital repository of information on camelid farming in Latin America - a sector that involves more than 150,000 families in Peru and Bolivia. Currently the...

The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) is accepting nominations for its global stewardship award, the UIAA Mountain Protection Award. The award aims to highlight tourism activities that promote conservation of...

Mountain Partnership member Active Remedy has contributed to a United Nations Analytical Brief on water security.Released in March to coincide with World Water Day, the brief explains issues of concern...

The first workshop in the preparation of a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on “Sustainable management of mountain forests and land resources of the Kyrgyz Republic...

Experts from Asian mountains committed themselves to working together for social and ecological resilience to climate change at the Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in Asian Mountains in...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are planning a publication on...

The Association of Forest and Land Users of Kyrgyzstan organized a competition of children’s drawings in the remote mountainous village of Kochkorka for the first International Forest Day, 21 March...

Highly endangered Bearded Vultures are dining out at special ‘vulture restaurants’ as part of conservation efforts in the Maloti and Drakensberg mountains. The restaurants provide animal carcasses for the birds to...

A new issue of Mountain Research and Development is now available online. Topics examined include adaptive capacity in hill farming, institutional and ecological aspects of rangeland management, geospatial selection of reforestation...

Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) invite well-validated and sound analyses of approaches to, and conditions for, initiating gender-positive transformation in mountain...

Mountain Partnership member Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee has received a United Nations award for empowering coffee-growers, primarily women, to improve their lives and their children’s futures. The American fair trade company...