Welcome to the Mountain Forum Online Library! This Library is a collection of material focused on sustainable mountain development issues in an electronic form. It was established in 1996, with members of the Forum contributing academic articles, abstracts, features, reports, theses, bibliographic references and web resources, amongst others.

About the Library

The resources in the Library are of several types, and include full-text documents, bibliographic references, periodicals, and reference material. Each of these can be accessed by using the relevant links on the left of this page. The material in the Library is mostly in English, with some in French, Spanish and Russian as well. We hope to build the non-English language content considerably.

We encourage visitors to use the Library to its fullest potential, both by seeking out relevant material as well as by contributing their own material to the Library. You can contribute material by clicking here. It is this spirit of sharing which has given the Library its depth, and we hope that this will continue in the years to come.

New Features

All full-text documents have been formatted in a standard manner and are available for downloading in MS Word or PDF formats
All full-text documents carry mandatory information to provide credibility to the document
Key words have been added to each full-text document to give you more efficient search results
Abstracts of full-text documents are provided where available

Contact the Library

If you have any questions, or have any problems in accessing or contributing material, please contact us at:

Tel: +977-1-500 3222
Fax: +977-1-500 3277
Email: library[at]mtnforum[dot]org

Latest additions to the library

BEES is up and flying - Karen Rollins;

Book review of: Mien relations: Mountain people and state control in Thailand - Tim Forsyth;

Biofuel expansion: Challenges, risks and opportunities for rural poor people - Vineet Raswant; Nancy Hart; Monica Romano;

WOCAT - World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies: WOCAT orientation in Nepal - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD);

ICT for rural community development: Interview with Mahabir Pun - Tek Jung Mahat;

A glimpse of SSMP: Progress and challenges - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD);

HIMCAT/NEPCAT initiative - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD);

Lime juice small-scale production - Practical Action;

Lime marmalade - Practical Action;

Agricultural diversity in coping with climate change - Bandana Shakya;

Himalayan mountain pastoralism - Naomi H Bishop;

From subsistence to cash generating crops: A case study of changing cropping pattern in the Garhwal Himalaya, India - Vishwambhar Prasad Sati;

Medicinal plants in Valais: A success story - Charly Darbellay;

Promoting food self-sufficiency in the mid-hills of Nepal: Fertilisers or farmyard manure? - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); Helvetas Nepal;

Traditional irrigation system: A case of Apatani tribe in Arunachal Himalaya, north east India - Mihin Dollo;

Recognising the amenities of mountain agriculture in Europe - Thomas Dax;

Canahua deserves to come back - Adriana Woods Páez; Pablo Eyzaguirre;

Experiences in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management in the mid-hills of Nepal: Out-scaling the lessons - Isabelle Providoli;

Livelihoods at risk: Agricultural viability and converging climatic and economic change in the central Andes - Adam French; Jeffrey Bury;

Mountain farming support in Austria - Gerhard Hovorka; Thomas Dax;

Nepal’s declining agriculture production in changing climate - Mohan Prasad Devkota; Ashok Kumar Koirala;

Women in the forefront: Conservation of traditional crop biodiversity: A study of Uttarakhand State in Indian Himalaya - Rajendra Prasad Juyal; Mahesh Chandra Sati;

No land left for women: Property rights in Baltistan (central Karakoram) - Nadine Guenther; Tine Maikowski; Matthias Schmidt;

Buhid shifting cultivators adapt land use - Chris Erni;

Dzo: The mule of the Himalayas in a changing climate - Nakul Chettri;

L'Eco guide des stations de montagne - Mountain Riders, France;

An integrated approach to climate change adaptation - Gehendra Bahadur Gurung; Dinanath Bhandari;

The case of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: ICIMOD’s position on climate change and mountain systems - Andreas Schild;

Lime juice clear cordial - Practical Action;

Kawal: Fermented green leaves - Practical Action;

Gundruk pickled leafy vegetable - Practical Action;

Actions to assist developing countries implement Agenda 21 undertaken by the World Tourism Organization since 1992 - World Tourism Organization (WTO), USA;

Open access: Opportunities and challenges – A handbook - European Commission; German Commission for UNESCO;

Jams, jellies and marmalade - Practical Action;

The other side of the mountain: The impact of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy on sustainable agriculture in the South - Iain Farquhar;

Drying of foods - Barrie Axtell;

Fruit juice processing - S Azam Ali;

Fruit leathers - Practical Action;

Fruit waste utilisation - Practical Action;

Ginger processing - S Azam Ali;

Grape wine - S Azam Ali;

Gum sweets - Practical Action;

Ice cream production - Peter Fellows;

Convention on the protection of the Alps, convention on the protection and sustainable development of the Carpathians and Balkan Convention Initiative - Biljana Mitreva;

Cohesion for growth: Mountain as natural ingredients for Europe’s competitiveness - Euromontana;

Regional dynamics and cross-sectoral partnerships - Frank Gaskell;

An assessment of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: Synthesis report - Lenny Bernstein; Peter Bosch; Osvaldo Canziani; Zhenlin Chen; Renate Christ; Ogunlade Davidson; William Hare; Saleemul Huq; David Karoly; Vladimir Kattsov; Zbigniew Kundzewicz; Jian Liu; Ulrike Lohmann; Martin Manning; Taroh Matsuno; Bettina Menne; Bert Metz; Monirul Mirza; Neville Nicholls; Leonard Nurse; Rajendra Pachauri; Jean Palutikof; Martin Parry; Dahe Qin; Nijavalli Ravindranath; Andy Reisinger; Jiawen Ren; Keywan Riahi; Cynthia Rosenzweig; Matilde Rusticucci; Stephen Schneider; Youba Sokona; Susan Solomon; Peter Stott; Ronald Stouffer; Taishi Sugiyama; Rob Swart; Dennis Tirpak; Coleen Vogel; Gary Yohe;

Drying of chillies - S Azam Ali;

Drying of apricots - Practical Action;

Solar distillation - Practical Action;