Joint ICIMOD-IUCN Book and Technology Fair, 'Sharing Mountain Knowledge'

Joint ICIMOD-IUCN Book and Technology Fair, 'Sharing Mountain Knowledge'11-12 December 2006

To celebrate International Mountain Day, 11 December 2006 and held in conjunction with the Himalaya Tourism Conference 2006, Mountaineering, Livelihoods and Environment organised by the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA).

Venue: Rox Garden, Hotel Hyatt Regency, Boudha
Dates: 11 December 2006: 11 am to 4.30 pm
12 December 2006: 10 am to 4.30 pm

We will show:

Products: Publications, video films, fruit and medicinal plants, agro products,seeds, honey and others

Exhibition: Photographs, posters, slides

Demonstrations: Technologies for bio-briquetting, vermi-composting, beekeeping, renewable energy and many more.

Participating Partners:

Apiculturists' Network (API-Net, Nepal); Centre for Rural Technology-Nepal; Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forest & Soil Conservation; Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN); ForestAction Nepal; Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FoST); Himal Association; Himalayan Indigenous Women Network (HIWN) & Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN); Mountain Forum; National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC); Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC); Nepal Participatory Action Network (NEPAN); Plan International Nepal; Practical Action Nepal; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); IUCN-The World Conservation Union (together with South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, SANDEE); and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)