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Youth from the Asia-Pacific region gathered at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal to raise a strong voice for mountain issues in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The five-day event, held from 30 September to 4 October 2013, culminated with the Asia-Pacific Youth Declaration on Mountain Issues and Post-2015 Development Agenda, urging the...
Latin American and European experts coordinate efforts
The Third Regional Seminar of the EUROCLIMA programme, an initiative financed by the European Union, will take place this 14th and 15th of October in the city of Brussels, Belgium. The objective of this intercontinental event will be to reflect, among Latin American and European experts, on the strengths of EUROCLIMA’s first phase and...
Representatives from a range of Family Farming and rural organisations met in Wellington on October 2nd to start planning a local programme for the International Year of Family Farming 2014. The workshop was organised by the IYFF-2014 NZ steering group -convened by Brendan Hoare of Organic Systems- and was hosted by Rural Women NZ.
The organisations taking part were Dairy NZ, HortNZ, NZ Rural...
In the CPWF Andes project Mechanisms for benefit sharing to improve productivity and reduce conflicts for water in the Andes (COMPANDES), ecosystem services is the lens through which we design mechanisms to better share the benefits of water. These mechanisms range from relatively simple payments for ecosystem services schemes, like the proposed Daule Water Fund in Ecuador, through complex...
Fixed contract position: Coordinator for AfroMont, the African Mountain Research Network
The University of Pretoria is offering a contract position for the coordinator of AfroMont, the African Mountain Research Network (http://mri.scnatweb.ch/mri-africa). AfroMont consists of 300 scientists from across Africa who have a common interest: sustainable resources and livelihoods in the African...
A social network analysis of the journalists who received Fellowships from the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has documented how the Fellowship boosted their careers and dramatically improved their coverage of climate issues.
The CCMP – a partnership between Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, the International Institute for Environment and Development and (previously)...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has launched a website on the voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring. The site contains a draft version of the first two sections of the guidelines, a brochure and contact information.
The voluntary guidelines will present good practice case studies, and methods and tools for long-term forest monitoring systems. The two sections...
‘Mountains: Our Life, Our Future – Progress and perspectives on sustainable mountain development,’ a publication launched at the Fourth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership, examines the environmental and social issues at stake in the world’s mountains over the last twenty years. Based on ten regional reports prepared for the Rio+20 conference, the 89-page global...
This is a call for applications from prospective graduate students to our program, described online at mlws.landfood.ubc.ca, which focuses on developing an integrated understanding of land and water systems in order to better address global issues such as food security, water quality, restoration of degraded lands, and more. This is a 12-month, course-based program, ideal for both returning...
27th -29th November, 2013
Kathmandu, Nepal
Introduction
Climate variability and climate change are the concern for all the levels of society including the organizations and individuals involved in planning and policy formulation. Developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change because of their inadequate capacity and resources to cope its adverse effects. Scientific discussions and...