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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has released the first in a series of working papers on agroforestry. The guide, titled "Advancing Agroforestry on the Policy Agenda," is aimed at decision makers, NGOs and government agencies to promote the integration of agroforestry into national strategies.
The guide outlines the conditions for,...
The Climate Service Center and the University of Hamburg are jointly organizing “The Hamburg Conference: Actions for Climate Induced Migration”, to be be held in Hamburg on July 16th -18th 2013.
http://www.climate-service-center.de/035152/index_0035152.html.de
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The mountain festival IMS presented at the sport fair ISPO Munich 2013 the new title patronage of KIKU and the charity project for the organization IWDR (Ich will da rauf), handing over a cheque of 3.400 Euros.
The International Mountain Summit, which since years takes over the role as initiator within the world of mountains, receives as commonly used for big,...
The XXI edition of the Alpine summer Course is an Italian-French initiative on "Fundamental processes in geophysical fluid dynamics and the climate system" organized each year by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR (Turin, Italy) and by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) in collaboration with the Ev-K2-CNR Committee. It will take place...
In this Open Issue of MRD, three Mountain Development articles present an approach comparing forest carbon storage with poverty data to ensure environmental and social sustainability of REDD+ interventions in Lao PDR; an analysis of the role of mountain landscapes in sustainable development initiatives in the Italian Alps; and a solar greenhouse...
Until 2012, the UN World Water Development Report was published every three years. From 2014 on, the WWDR will become an annual report, with a thematic focus and a standardized structure, and it will include data and case study annexes. It will be a 100-page annual report, which will be accompanied by a synthesis report published every five years. The Theme for the WWDR5 that...
n recent years, large-scale land acquisition by private and public investors has been a dynamic and much debated trend, often triggering extensive land use changes. From a mountain community perspective, it is timely to explore whether this trend and debate have any relevance to sustainable mountain development and if so, how to tackle the challenges involved and learn from good practices. MRD...
Mountains Under Watch (MUW13) is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term...
The wind of change is blowing in the Swiss and Austrian Alps! The refreshing breeze was induced by the Memorandum of Understanding on ‘Research collaboration in the Alps’ that has been signed by the Swiss State Secretary for Education and Research and the Austrian Minister for Science and Research in Fall 2011. Lets capitalize on the concentrated forces and embrace...
The EMICT-Forum has gathered 120 mountain stakeholders, at Seynod (near Annecy, High Savoyen), in the French Alps, on November 9th and 10th, 2011.
A large proportion of elected representatives from European mountain areas have been there. Union bodies and, local and European associations fighting for the e-inclusion of mountain territories have also been represented. Academic experts...
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