Latin America
Usted está cordialmente invitado a participar el próximo viernes 19 de abril en un webinar (seminario virtual en vivo) dentro del "Foro Construcción de Escenarios de Cambio Climático en los Andes", con la participación de instituciones focales de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú y...
A project to improve food security among vulnerable rural groups coordinated by Mountain Partnership member the International Potato Centre (CIP) is underway in four Latin American countries.
In the Andes, the potato is one of the most important crops in the agricultural sector. However, in areas where the tuber is...
La Fundación para la Integración y el Desarrollo de América Latina, FIDAL, la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, la Agencia de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura –FAO-, y la Alianza para las Montañas, anuncian la realización del Séptimo Seminario de Periodismo Científico, en el campus de la UTPL, en Loja, los días 16 y 17 de mayo próximos.
El Tema del...
This conference (Foro Internacional Glaciares: el reto de la investigación al servicio de la sociedad en el marco del cambio climático) will bring together scientists, practitioners and representatives from public and governmental institutions to exchange experiences, recent progress and coordinate current and future initiatives in the field of glaciology and high mountains in Peru...
A session titled “Networks for Sustainable Monitoring of Global Environmental Change” is being organized by CONDESAN, with support from the Mountain Research Institute. The session looks to use case studies of ongoing monitoring networks in global environmental change, showing how the role of networks has been important in their organization and how their...
A workshop held in October 2012 in Lima, Peru, brought together more than 40 scientists and policy makers working in Andean forest ecosystems, one of the richer and most threatened ecosystems of the world. Among the various results of the workshop, there is the formation of the network “Red de Bosques Andinos”. The goals of the network include to stimulate scientific research in...
Two complementary on-going research projects aim to understand the likely relationships between climate change, human migration and the (re)emergence of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) in the Andes-Amazon region. The FAPESP project focus on Climate Change and the (re)emergence of both American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) and Bartonellosis (Enfermedad de Carrion), in the South-western...
In the ELLA Programme, we have systematized, analysed and produced development knowledge of evidence and lessons from Latin America in selected themes in environmental management, economic development and governance.
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...
IISD: Reports summarizing the risks associated with climate variability and change in selected sectors, ecosystems and/or regions in three African and four Latin American and Caribbean countries are now available.
African reports:
- Kenya: Climate risk management for malaria control in Kenya: the...
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