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Natural diversity through stones
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CIPRA International
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published
Feb 01, 2024
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last modified
Feb 07, 2024 03:23 PM
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filed under:
alpmedia 1/2024,
Biodiversity,
Agriculture,
tradition
What do the large woolly bee, the protected fire-bellied toad, the busy ant and the white stonecrop have in common? They all feel right at home in and around cairns, which CIPRA’s “StoneRich” project is creating in seven pilot regions.
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How diversity is lost
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Feb 21, 2020
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:11 AM
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filed under:
Climate Change,
land use/management,
Agriculture,
alpmedia 2/2020
Intensive agriculture and climate change: a recent study from Austria shows how much influence both have on the loss of biodiversity in Alpine regions.
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Quality from the mountains
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Aug 24, 2020
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM
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filed under:
Mountains,
Regional value creation,
Agriculture,
alpMedia 6/2020
Cheese, meat and honey – these and other products from the mountains must meet certain EU requirements to be allowed to bear the “mountain product” quality label, introduced by the EU in 2014. A recent study shows whether and how this term has become established.
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Rejuvenation of mountain farms
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Mar 18, 2018
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:11 AM
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filed under:
alpMedia 2/2018,
Agriculture,
alpMedia 3/2018
Fewer and fewer young people want to become farmers. If no one is willing to inherit and take on the running of a farm, it will close. There is a lack of both recognition and incentives – from EU policy through to searching for partners.
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Where pesticides do not belong
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by
alpMedia
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published
Mar 16, 2021
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:07 AM
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filed under:
research, science,
structural problems in agriculture,
soil immissions and hazards,
pesticides,
alpMedia 2/2021,
Agriculture
On children’s playgrounds, in schoolyards and at the marketplace: researchers from Italy, Austria and Germany detect 32 different agricultural poisons in public places in South Tyrol.
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Mountain Research and Development Vol 38, No 4: Food Security and Sustainable Development in Mountains
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by
CIPRA International
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published
Feb 04, 2019
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:27 AM
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filed under:
sustainability,
Agriculture
Four papers present opportunities and challenges for sustainable food systems worldwide and in Nepal, Pakistan, and Ladakh. Others explore the contribution of caterpillar fungus to livelihoods in India, the economics of walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan, dwarf pine cover in Slovakia, bacteriological characteristics of drinking water in Nepal, the impact of changing glacier conditions on mountaineering in New Zealand and of ski tourism on wildlife in Poland, and land use dynamics in the Argentinian puna.
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