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As you might know, 2014 will be the UN International Year of Family Farming. As a contribution to this International Year, and also with the aim of recognizing and supporting the important role that mountain products play in enabling food security and eradicating poverty, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS), the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and the Swiss...
The sixth IPROMO training programme on sustainable mountain development will take place 12-22 July in Ormea, Italy, jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization and...
Mountains cover approximately one-quarter of the world’s surface and are home to approx. 12 % of the global population. Mountains provide freshwater to half of the world’s population and are home to half of all global biodiversity hotspots. On the other hand, mountains are among the regions in the world which are most sensitive to climate change and human impacts.
To date, there is no...
On March 4th, 2013, www.ValorandoNaturaleza.org, sister site to the EcosystemMarketplace.com, comes online. This new information platform is designed exclusively to generate and bring together quality information...
This issue of MRD examines adaptive capacity in hill farming, institutional and ecological aspects of rangeland management, geospatial selection of reforestation areas, effects of air pollution and other abiotic conditions on mountain forests, improved vegetation classification, downscaling of climate projections, land surface temperature assessment, and effects of weather on glacial debris...
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) invite well-validated and sound analyses of approaches to and conditions for initiating gender-positive transformation in mountain environments. Abstracts are due by 15 April 2013, full papers by 1 September 2013.
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It is always fruitful, merge skills and traditional knowledge on the academic and technical staff for each member, whether the programs mitigatórios flora and fauna in at least four matutos...
By: Jennifer Phelps
Mountainous ecosystems are particularly sensitive to the effects of climate change. Rising temperatures in mountainous climates, the melting of glaciers and early disappearance of winter snowfall during the spring, are often regarded as significant and ominous indicators of dramatic changes which are likely to play an important role in our future world....
Lakes high in the world's mountains are becoming increasingly dangerous to the towns that have sprouted up near them. The lakes are prone to floods, typically caused when the mountain glaciers that feed them shed a chunk of ice and rock, forcing thousands of gallons over the banks.
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