development
Introduction
Representatives from across the world including governments, international...
Research in agriculture seeks to generate new approaches or technologies that can be used to make a difference in farmers’ lives, and for the broader society. Well-designed technologies can have major positive impacts, as well as providing evidence that investments in agricultural...
Human migration can be triggered by multiple factors, including political, demographic, economic and social influences. It is widely accepted that environmental change can also drive large populations to migrate to other regions. However, isolating and measuring environment-induced...
“Most important problem mountainous regions face is indisputably depopulation,” said Iliyana Yotova, MEP with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), speaking at a ...
For the latest issue of the journal Mountain Research and Development (MRD), guest editors G. Gratzer and W. Keeton invited researchers to reflect on the role of mountain forests in relation to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Papers in this issue cover...
Each year, the snow line on the Himalayan and Andean mountain slopes continues to creep up, exposing brown dirt where 50 years ago there was always snow. Communities downstream from those majestic peaks now watch as big lakes formed by melting glaciers cause catastrophic floods in...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the 21st Century the “age of mobility”. As the international community considers how to build on the Millennium Development Goals after the target date of 2015, it is clear that migration must be an integral part of the global...
The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) is pleased to announce that the third International Conference on Technologies for Development: What is Essential? will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...
Mountain communities have traditionally been stewards of globally significant mountain resources. As more mountain resources are used, downstream beneficiaries have contributed little or no reinvestment in the resources or their traditional stewards, the mountain communities. As a result, mountain resources are being depleted at unsustainable rates, and traditionally self-reliant mountain...