Training mountain communities in integrated environmental management

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends promoting a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach in training and the dissemination of knowledge to local people on a wide range of issues, such as household production systems, conservation and utilization of arable and non-arable land, treatment of drainage lines and recharging of groundwater, livestock management, fisheries, agroforestry and horticulture. Agenda 21 also recommends undertaking environmental education for farmers, in particular for women, to help the rural population better understand the ecological issues regarding the sustainable development of mountain ecosystems.

1. Training
2. Protecting mountain habitats
3. Integrating ecology into agricultural science education
4. Instituting integrated management of water catchments
5. Increasing environmental management education capacities
6. Improving management systems for highland valleys
7. Expanding environmental management education and training
8. Educating in natural systems, ecosystems and resource management
9. Developing community management schemes
10. Building capacity for environmental management

1. Increasing community management of forests
2. Establishing global monitoring system for mountain zone management
3. Cleaning up mountains

1. Organizing mountain rescue training courses
2. Educating about trees

1. Mismanagement
2. Integration

1. Healthy Mountain Communities