April 22nd, 2010 | Events, Uncategorized
Today is Earth Day, a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. Founded as an environmental teach-in held on 22 April 1970, forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the [...]
More »March 25th, 2010 | Publications
We invite you to read the fifth issue of our newsletter, showcasing stories on the use and sustainable management of agrobiodiversity by communities around the world. The articles in this issue highlight the potential of agricultural biodiversity in making significant contribution to livelihood security in communities that inhabit difficult environments with unique resources. They also [...]
More »February 16th, 2010 | Events
On 7 May 2010, the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) will host a workshop on ”Global Change Research in Mountain Regions” in Vienna, Austria. The event, organized by the MRI, the Institute for Mountain Research (IGF) and the Interim Secretariat for the Carpathian Convention (ISCC-UNEP), will be held at the Vienna International Centre of UNEP. MRI ran such a [...]
More »February 8th, 2010 | Funding
The Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation (PKF) promotes the empowerment and well being of disadvantaged human communities. By strengthening intra and inter-community solidarity the Foundation strives to improve local capacities, promote the respect of human rights and sustain cultural and biological diversity. The Foundation was created in Switzerland in March 2006. It has an international Board [...]
More »February 8th, 2010 | Events
From 15 to 17 February 2010 in Chennai, India the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation will hold an international conference on “Biodiversity in Relation to Food and Human Security in a Warming Planet” in memory of Dr Norman E Borlaug. The conference is designed to promote exchange of ideas on the current situation in the implementation [...]
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