Mountain Poverty
This short animated film, narrated by actor/director/producer and Academy Award winner Sir David Attenborough, highlights the role forests can play in national development, a green economy and climate change. It also reviews the current situation...
Water will be a defining environmental issue for many years to come. Find out how we can address this issue head-on and create thousands of good jobs in the process with the latest in our "Building the Green Economy" series about Water and water...
A girl child and agricultural harvesting in rain shadow area of Himalayan zone: a food deficit area, Humla district, Nepal
Sunimarca is located in the department of Puno, Peru, above 4.150 mt. above sea level. This video presents the challenges of this Andean community, who live in social exclusion. However, it is a community that has kept alive their culture...
The majority of food carried in from Kathmandu, camping at ad-hoc sites, porters and guides from well outside the region gives no lasting benefit to the local communities who deservedly should profit from us trekking all over their country side....
The “Qhapaq Ñan Trust” (Patronato Qhapaq Ñan), which was recently established in Lima, is a non‐profit civil association whose objective is to carry out activities contributing to the revaluation, dissemination and promotion of the pre‐Hispanic road...
This year, the Forum’s topic on Mountain green products coincided with the global move towards Rio+20 (2012) on Green economy. The discussions were organized in thematic groups in three parallel sessions, namely, on pasture green products, forest...
In this interview, Dr. Bebbington indicates that the challenge – for mountain dwellers and outside actors alike – is to imagine and make viable modes of living that will satisfy the legitimate aspirations of rural dwellers at the same time s being “...
