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December 4, 2025
Historic moment: Pamir Mountains ice core handed over by Tajikistan for Antarctic preservation
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Integrating mountain priorities into global frameworks
December 4, 2025
In lead up to COP30 Mountain Partnership member Mountain Sentinels, hosted a virtual coffee and discussion ‘The Mountain Agenda and COP30: A coordinated global policy for mountains and youth voices’, featuring insights from the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the Mountain Youth Hub and ClimaTalk on efforts to bring mountains and youth into global policy discussions. The virtual event was moderated by Julia Klein, Mountain Sentinels.
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Integrating mountain priorities into global frameworks
December 4, 2025
Enhancing climate action for mountain ecosystems and agrifood systems in Europe and Central AsiaOP30.
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UNFCCC COP30 approves dialogue on mountains and climate change in 2026
December 4, 2025
Mountains gained significant recognition from the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, with the announcement of a mandated dialogue on mountains and climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. This marks another important step forward in integrating the priorities and unique vulnerabilities of mountain regions into global climate policy and action.
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CIP (CGIAR) visits the POTATO PARK
November 20, 2025
On November 20th, scientists from gene banks around the world represented by CGIAR and germplasm banks were able to catalyze a dialogue on scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems to ensure the future of global food security.
UNFCCC COP 30 – SIDE-EVENT “The Need to Recognise Environmental Defenders in the UNFCCC Process – Voices from Latin America”
November 14, 2025
We discuss (1) the role of environmental defenders in climate action, biocultural diversity and human rights protection in Colombia, Peru and beyond; (2) challenges they face including mining, floods, forest fires, drought or carbon piracy; and (3) gaps of their recognition in the UNFCCC process.
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International Potato Center Peru – ceremony
December 3, 2013
The 'Papa Watay' ceremony performed by traditional farmers from the Parque de la Papa to 'capture the potato spirit'. It celebrates the donation of rare varieties to the gene bank at the International Potato Centre in Lima, Peru
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Svalbard seed vault to take Peruvian potato samples
February 17, 2011
Farmers in the Potato Park in Cusco, Peru, are sending 1,500 varieties of potatoes to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to safeguard the tubers' future. The samples will be stored in a vault inside a mountain, which aims to protect the world's food crop species against natural and human disasters, and promote the conservation of biodiversity and seed preservation.
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In highland Peru a culture confronts blight
March 3, 2008
In remote farms in the Andes Mountains, elevated thousands of feet above sea level, climate change is threatening a crop that is part of the region's identity: the potato. Indigenous farmers in Peru are combating climate change by diversifying the varieties of potatoes planted in the Potato Park.
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Peru’s potato passion goes global
February 8, 2008
For thousands of years, the potato has been the staple diet of the people of the Andes. Today, the agriculture minister, Ismael Benavidas, says the native potato is still the answer for combating food insecurity throughout Peru.
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