Central-Asia
This year, the Forum’s topic on Mountain green products coincided with the global move towards Rio+20 (2012) on Green economy. The discussions were organized in thematic groups in three parallel sessions, namely, on pasture green products, forest green products and green farming practices. The sessions narrowing its focus on specific subject areas have helped to identify and summarize...
Hyrcanian vegetation zone is a green belt stretching over the northern slopes of Alborz mountain ranges and covers the southerncoasts of the Caspian Sea. This area stretches from Astara in the northwest to Gorgan vicinity in the northeast of Iran that covered some parts of three rovinces of Iran including: Golestan, Mazandaran and Gilan Provinces. This area has a total area of 1.85 million ha...
News and Views from the 3rd International Forum and Water and Food
It is no secret that food security depends on water security and that climate change is impacting on both. The question is whether these issues will be addressed at the UNFCCC COP17?Is there still time to have them feature on the COP17 agenda? Belynda Petrie, CEO of One World,provides...
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 11 December, from 2003 onwards, as the “International Mountain Day”. The occasion is observed each year with a different theme relevant to sustainable mountain development. In order to ensure the link and the contribution to the International Year of Forests, the theme for the International Mountain Day 2011 is “...
The 3rd International Forum on Water and Food was opened with an African drum roll on November 14th. The Forum offers something for everyone.
The Forum will bring together more than 300 CPWF partners (from more than 50 organizations), policy makers, development professionals and other key stakeholders to assess the very relevance of its research-for-development (R4D...
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