The Mountain Forum in Latin America E-Letter. No 9, June 2011

News

• Sustainable land use and rural development in mountain areas
  The Uplands Program is organizing a three day scientific conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rura...
• The human rights to water and sanitation
  Access to safe water and sanitation is a human right, you know....
• An innovation model kit for small and micro enterprises
  What organizational and managerial factors affec innovation in micro and small traditional enterpise...
• Peruvian Congress approved a 10-year moratorium on GM crops
  Arguing prevent any affectation over biodiversity, cultivation of GM seeds in Peruvian territory sha...
• New Glaciology Station in Peru
  To monitor the retreat of glaciers to climate change under the PRAA project, led by the Ministry of ...

Resources

• Back to the Future. State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2011
  For five years, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have published...
• REDD-plus and Biodiversity
  This publication provides technical and scientific information for designing and implementing fores...
• Financial Planning for National Systems of Protected Areas: Preliminary Guidelines and Lessons
  This paper aims to provide concepts and approaches to optimize both the financial planning of protec...
• Forests in a Green Economy. A Synthesis
  This synthesis examines the critical role of forests in a green economy, and provides policy recomme...
• Agroecological rural family farming in the Andean Community. An option for improving food security and conserve biodiversity
  The experiences of household production in different agro-ecological regions have shown that it is ...