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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...
The Swiss Cooperation (SDC) and the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), under the Verbier Green Pioneering Summit 2011, are organizing the regional event "Conserving, constructing and celebrating our Mountains" with the purpose to highlight the importance of the Andes in the worldwide celebration of the International Mountain Day (IMD) on...
Monday, 18 April 2011 - With the cooperation of politicians and grassroots organizations, Bolivia is set to pass the Law of Mother Earth which will grant nature the same rights and protections as humans. The piece of legislation, called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, is intended to encourage a radical shift in conservation attitudes and actions, to enforce new control...
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500 networks, civil organizations and citizens have already signed the present Adhesion Letter which was launched in Sao Paulo State, parallel to the 1st Rio +20 Paulista Seminar, as during the Seminar of the 4th edition of the MDGs promoted by The Presidency General Secretariat , the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and the National Movement for Citizenship and Solidarity, as...
The “Qhapaq Ñan Trust” (Patronato Qhapaq Ñan), which was recently established in Lima, is a non‐profit civil association whose objective is to carry out activities contributing to the revaluation, dissemination and promotion of the pre‐Hispanic road system estimated in 30,000 kilometers approximately in six countries, as well as the natural and cultural heritage related to this historic...
In the late 1990s, The Mountain Institute, a small, non‐profit environmental organization began working with the Antamina Mining Company, one of the world’s largest mining companies, to help it revise its plans for a large zinc and copper mine. The collaboration produced a road design that not only protected a fragile ecosystem but was more cost effective than the fim’s original plan. This...
To understand how agriculture and poverty interact, we analysed water availability, productivity and institutions for the Andes basins. Water limits agricultural productivity in the southern basins but is plentiful in the northern basins where steep slopes or poor land and water management limit productivity. The dominance of small, steep basins results in important upstream–downstream...
In this interview, Dr. Echeverria, Director General of CIAT (Colombia), indicates that a new “doubly green” agriculture is necessary in order to continue the necessary increase in food production, biofuel and other commodities while contributing to the restoration of degraded ecosystem functions. It will be based on a multifunctional use of land that considers not only the production of...
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