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Grand Challenges Canada has announced a Request for proposals for investigators in low and middle income countries who are within 10 years after their latest degree (Young innovators) .
With this proposal, Grand Challenges Canada is seeking emerging innovators (within 10 years of graduation from a Masters level or PhD) from developing countries. We are looking for bold ideas with big...
Issue 48 - Month 1 - Year 2012
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40 years of UNESCO World Heritage Convention
This year marks the 40th anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
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International Mountain Day is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 11 December, from 2003...
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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