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The representatives of Mountain Territories from forty countries met on 20 September 2002 in Quito (Ecuador) and adopted the main points of the following declaration. This charter was then drafted as faithfully as possible in the spirit of the meeting. In keeping with the mission assigned to them, the encounter organizers submit this text for approval. They would...
The sustainability of rural development initiatives (including forestry) depends greatly on the capacities of the institutions involved, the relationships among them and their relative power. Therefore a strategy to foster pluralistic approaches to rural development should focus on building the capacities of those who have typically been marginalized by development strategies and discussions...
The world is three-quarters water and the Latin American and Caribbean region is considered to have comparatively greater availability of this resource: an estimated 30% of the world's fresh water. But human activities are besieging this wealth of water, threatening both its quality and quantity.
Ecuador is not unfamiliar with this reality. The internal water resources available...
Since 1990 interest in mountains has received an impetus with the establishment of the IUCN Commission on Mountain Protected Areas and the inclusion of Article 13 (Fragile Mountain Environments) of Agenda 21 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Today there is growing awareness at policy, research and activist levels that the well-being of lowland areas is...
In 2002, as a follow up of the III Mainland Montane South East Asia (MMSEA) Conference on Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity and Local Governance in Mountain Areas of SE-Asia in Lijiang, China, 15 of the participants from Vietnam, Lao PDR, Thailand and SW-China established a regional network to support the retention and revitalization of Indigenous Knowledge within ethnic communities. The...
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