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The UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section has the pleasure to extend the invitation for the celebrations on the International Day of Forests on Monday, 21 March 2016 at the United Nations in Geneva.

The International Day of Forests is held annually on 21 March to raise...

In Cambodia, villagers find peaceful means to protect their communities

Sal Hnok starts his story silently – he just takes a shell casing from his pocket and holds it up. He says it was from a bullet fired at him and others in Kanat Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern...

Women are leaders, professors, engineers and farmers, they are core to human existence. Women also make up make up significant majorities of the world's poorest populations and produce more than...

The effects of climate change on food production around the world could lead to more than 500,000 deaths by the year 2050, according to a grim ...

Global climate models project stronger warming at high elevations, with potentially disastrous consequences for its ecosystems services (ESS). For instance, melting glaciers alone will affect the water supply of millions people, while soil degradation and erosion put local...

The Mountain Partnership is pleased to announce the ninth IPROMO Course - the training programme on sustainable mountain development - jointly...

If the moment has arrived to take your sustainability project to the next level, then please note that the application period for the 2016 UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA) is now open.

Nomination for the much coveted Award, launched by the UIAA in 2013 and sponsored by...

The concept of “restoration” is an important tool in regional, national, and international environmental policies, although the term has different connotations in policy and scientific contexts. A recent paper in the journal Frontiers of Ecology and Environment compares and...

  • Ana Sabogal, profesora sección Geografía y medio ambiente, directora de maestría en Desarrollo Ambiental

Los días anteriores hemos sido mudos testigos del derrame de petróleo el afluente afluente del río Marañon departamento de Loreto (Perú), siguió del...

From Bonneville County, Idaho, to Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, tablet-toting agronomists with Anheuser-Busch InBev — the world's largest brewer by volume — are visiting farmers who grow the company's malt barley, a key ingredient in beer. These meetings are a decades-old ritual:...

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