Training course launched on Understanding Upland Watershed Management
The sixth IPROMO training programme on sustainable mountain development will take place 12-22 July in Ormea, Italy, jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Turin. The course will provide ten days of full immersion learning for 30 selected participants on the importance of upland watershed management and the approaches and methods for promoting a new generation of watershed management. Focusing on the main features of watershed management in particular resource management and land use systems, it will look at the linkages with climate change, with disaster risk...
Mountain Partnership now on Facebook
The Mountain Partnership now has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mountainpartnership. We'll be posting daily with the latest activities of Mountain Partnership members and with news from the world of sustainable mountain development as well as with publications, photos, facts and more.Please follow the page and feel free to share, comment and post news and photos.
The Mountain Partnership
The Mountain Partnership is a United Nations voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain people and protecting mountain environments around the world. The partnership addresses the challenges facing mountain regions by tapping the wealth and diversity of resources, knowledge, information and expertise, from and between one another, in order to stimulate concrete initiatives at all levels that will ensure improved quality of life and environments in the world’s mountain regions. Currently, 50 governments, 16 intergovernmental organizations and 143 major groups (including groups from civil society, NGOs and the private sector) are members. Find out more...
Mountains and Climate Change: A Global Concern
Whether we live at sea level or higher, we are connected to mountains and affected by them in more ways than we can imagine. Mountains provide most of the world's freshwater, harbour a rich variety of plants and animals, and are home to one in ten people. Yet, each day, environmental degradation, the consequences of climate change, exploitative mining, armed conflict, poverty and hunger threaten the extraordinary web of life that the mountains support. Find out more in this video, which explains how mountains are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Click also for versions in French, Spanish and...
Fourth Mountain Partnership Global Meeting set
The Fourth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership will take place in Turkey, 17-20 September 2013. The global meeting will be key to endorsing the new four-year strategy and governance of the Mountain Partnership and to initiate work on its implementation.It will also provide a unique opportunity for members from across the world a chance to meet, network, present interesting initiatives and promote collaborative action in sustainable mountain development. More details such as the exact location and the tentative agenda will follow in the coming weeks but in the meantime Mountain Partnership members are...IPROMO Course 2013
Understanding Upland Watershed Management
12-22 July, Ormea, Italy
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24.06.2013
The Third Pole Environment under Global Changes Brisbane, Australia
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08.07.2013
Third International High Mountain Glacial Watershed ConferenceHuaraz, Peru
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12.07.2013
Understanding upland watershed management - International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO)Ormea, Italy
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16.07.2013
The Hamburg Conference: Actions for Climate Induced MigrationHamburg, Germany
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03.08.2013
Mountain Research Initiative Key Contact WorkshopMinneapolis, USA
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10.08.2013
Fourth European Fair of Regional ProductsZakopane, Poland
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