WMPA NEWSLETTER

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N° 2 (May 2011) :

OLORON MANIFESTO Living Mountains for a more Harmonious World We, the representatives of the World Mountain Populations, gathered in Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Pyrenees, France) from 25th September to 3rd October 2010, declare to the international community, to our national governments and the local authorities, to our sisters and brothers of the  cities, plains, countryside and coastal areas, that our mountains are alive, open and united in their diversity
Realities from mountain people A book of 103 pages, comprising a series of 17 interviews conducted by the team Almedio to mountain communities leaders present at the meeting as well as researchers and specialists working in the recovery of mountain areas, the management of natural resources and the challenges for the organization and strengthening of the word of the mountaineers. Download the complete book in pdf here (30mo)
	Global Cafés Almedio partnered with Empodera Consultores for the performance of 13 Global Cafés, video capsules made based on conversations about specific problems in the mountains. Consult the Global Cafés here.
FINAL REPORT Finally, a final report summarizing the work of the meeting is available here (PDF, 3Mo, ENG).

•June, 2010: Special issue on Mountains of the Habbanae Journal, published by Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières

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• Dec. 2006 : Publication of the interviews made by Almedio during the WMPA Regional Encounters

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• Dec. 2006 : Synthesis of the 6 regional encounters organised by WMPA between September 2006 and November 2006 in the Himalaya, in Africa and in the Andes

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• Minutes of the regional workshop in La Paz, Bolibia (20th-22nd Sept. 2005)

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• QUITO DECLARATION : Charter for World Mountain People (Sept. 2003)

The representatives of Mountain Territories from forty countries met on 20 September 2002 in Quito (Ecuador) taking into account the declarations issued at preparatory meetings of Achocalla (22-25 August 2002, Bolivia) and Yuksam (15-19 April 2002, India), adopted the main points of the following declaration. The present text drawn up in compliance with these directives was widely distributed to collect observations of mountain communities. In view of the results of this consultation it was decided finally to adopt it after modification on 4 September 2003 by the APMM office meeting at Ispoure (French Pyrenees).

Download the Charter for World Mountain People in ENGLISH

The Charter is also available in :

• GERMAN
• FRENCH
• SPANISH
• ITALIAN
• HINDI (Many thanks to Mr. Girija Pande for his kind translation).

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• LEAFLET of the World Mountain People Association (July 2005)

The leaflet is now available in Urdu (Many thanks to Mr. Michel Sacleux, WSO). Dowload the presentation of WMPA in Urdu

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• AUTO-DESARROLLO DE POBLACIONES DE MONTAÑA (Sept. 2005)

Testimonies of the participants to the WMPA’s Encounter in Quito, Equator (September 2002).

WMPA Publication with the support of FPH (Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l’Homme : www.fph.ch), del IEE (Instituto de estudios Ecuatorianos) y el CEDIME (Centro de Investigacion de los movimientos sociales del Ecuador : http://www.cedime.org.ec).

Download the publication (In Spanish)

 

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 • MEMORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY :  "Mountain agriculture and globalisation" - Ispoure, French Pyrenees - 2 and 3 of September of 2003