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The 2016 World Mountain Forum (WMF) provided a platform to discuss sustainable mountain development (SMD) in the context of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The...

Unless countries in the Himalayan and downstream region strengthen collaboration to address food, water and energy issues, the region is likely to face an unprecedented food crisis. This was the underlining message of the two-day regional ‘...

Una nueva publicación de la FAO destaca ejemplos exitosos de instituciones rurales

Las organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas son actores fundamentales para satisfacer la creciente demanda mundial de alimentos y productos forestales, mejorar la vida de las comunidades rurales y alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS)....

Last December I attended an annual event of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative - described as an ‘inclusive, multi-stakeholder partnership to rapidly develop the region’s agricultural...

Mountain forests play a key role in securing mountain livelihoods by providing timber, fuelwood, food, fodder, and medicine. In addition to these provisioning services, they offer cultural services as well as locally and globally significant regulating and supporting services such as...

We are a growing population living on this small planet, our only home. Each of us has the right to a healthy life, as agreed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all the nations of the world just a few months ago.

Our planet is finite and therefore we need...

El agua es el eje del desarrollo sostenible y es fundamental para las estrategias de adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático

ROMA, 6 ene 2016 (IPS) - “A través del agua es posible medir los impactos del cambio...

Mountain Futures, is an innovative conference on mountains in the Anthropocene, that will take place from 1–4 March 2016 in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

The conference is different in that it seeks to collect and nurture seeds of a positive Anthropocene, a grassroots approach to...

Even before Brexit, we were already behind where we needed to be with the sustainable development goals. Progress depends on staying humble.

It was always going to be a monumental task: 17 goals, 169 targets and countless (and hotly disputed) indicators to measure...

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