Show your love for the mountains on International Mountain Day

Posted by Tina Gardner on 11/12/2014

11 December was International Mountain Day! The theme for this year’s celebration focuses on mountain farming to tie in with the International Year of Family Farming 2014.

International Mountain Day, designated by the UN in 2003, provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of mountains. It's a day to celebrate mountains and highlights the opportunities and constraints in mountain developments as well as building partnerships to help bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.

This year's theme raises awareness of how mountain agriculture, which is predominantly family farming, has been a model for sustainable development for centuries.  It highlights how family farming in many mountain regions is undergoing rapid transformation due to population growth, economic globalisation and urbanisation. 

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Upland farming in the UK has NOT " been a model for sustainable development for centuries" - it is not economically sustainable and requires millions of pounds in support from the CAP, it is not socially sustainable the average of hill farmers is over 60 & a tiny % of rural population is employed in agriculture, and it is certainly not environmentally sustainable with England having a lower level of tree cover than Somalia. Just because something has occurred for several hundred years does not make it sustainable.

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