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Mountain Forum Bulletin: Mountain agriculture for better lives

by: Mountain Forum;
Language(s) of document: English
Type of document: Bulletin
Year it was written: 2009
Keywords: agriculture, agrobiodiversity, Andes, Austria, biodiversity, climate change, communication technology, conservation, crops, education, farming, farming systems, food security, gender, Himalayas, India, information technology, irrigation, medicinal plants, Nepal, pastoralism, policy, property rights, resource management, sustainable management, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, traditional knowledge
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Mountain Forum Bulletin Vol IX Issue 1 January 2009

Abstract:

Articles in the Bulletin focus on the theme of mountain agriculture and include the following:

• Recognising the amenities of mountain agriculture in Europe by Thomas Dax
• Agricultural Diversity in Coping with Climate Change by Bandana Shakya
• Livelihoods at Risk: Agricultural Viability and Converging Climatic and Economic Change in the Central Andes by Adam French and Jeffrey Bury
• Traditional irrigation system: A case of Apatani tribe in Arunachal Himalaya, North East India by Mihin Dollo
• Medicinal Plants in the Valais: A success story by Charly Darbellay
• No Land Left for Women: Property Rights in Baltistan (Central Karakoram) by Nadine Guenther, Tine Maikowski & Matthias Schmidt
• From subsistence to cash generating crops: a case study of changing cropping pattern in the Garhwal Himalaya, India Dr. by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
• Experiences in Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in the mid-hills of Nepal: out-scaling the lessons Isabelle Providoli
• Dzo: the mule of the Himalayas in a changing climate by Nakul Chettri
• Women on forefront:  Conservation of Traditional Crop Biodiversity: A Study of Uttarakhand State in Indian Himalaya by Rajendra Prasad Juyal and Mahesh Chandra Sati
• Nepal’s declining agriculture production in changing climate by Mohan Prasad Devkota and Ashok Kumar Koirala
• Mountain Farming Support in Austria by Gerhard Hovorka and Thomas Dax
• Himalayan Pastoralism by Naomi Bishop
• Promoting Food Self-Sufficiency in the mid-hills of Nepal: fertilizers or farmyard manure? Prepared by the SDC-Helvetas-Intercooperation Sustainable Soil Management Programme, Nepal
• Interview with Mr. Mahabir Pun, Chairman at E-network Research and Development
• Film Screenings - An effective tool for Conservation Education by Nimesh Ved
• Maintaining Agricultural Biodiversity in the European Mountain Regions: Alps, Carpathians and Balkans SAVE Monitoring Institute by Elli Broxham and Waltraud Kugler
• World premiere of a high-realist portrait of the Cross River gorilla by African Conservation Foundation
• Foundation for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (FDDM) by Eric Nanchen