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

Investment priorities for economic growth and poverty reduction - Shenggen Fan; Joanna Brzeska; Ghada Shields;

2008/09 Winter drought in Nepal: Crop and food security assessment - Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Nepal; World Food Programme; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations;

How to mobilise public resources to support poverty reduction - Sarah Adelman; Daniel O Gilligan; Kim Lehrer;

Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia: The role of agricultural and rural development - Nurul Islam;

Economic exclusion and poverty in Asia: The example of castes in India - Sukhadeo Thorat;

Agricultural and rural development for reducing poverty and hunger in Asia: Past performance and priorities for the future - Nurul Islam; Joachim von Braun;

Poverty in Asia and the transition to high-priced food staples - C Peter Timmer;

A multi-level perspective on conserving with communities: Experiences from upper tributary watersheds in montane mainland Southeast Asia - Louis Lebel; Rajesh Daniel; Nathan Badenoch; Po Garden; Masao Imamura;

Open-distance education as a mechanism for sustainable development: Reflections on the Nigerian experience - Rashid Aderinoye; Kester Ojokheta;

Gender review: Mainstreaming gender in the development portfolio of the Norwegian embassy in Ethiopia - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD;

Interim Report: A case study of Internet-based distance education program development in Vietnam - Ramona R Materi; Patrick J Fahy;

Book review: Advancing online learning in Asia - David Murphy; Namin Shin; Weiyuan Zhang;

Information paper on Farmers' Rights submitted by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway - Regine Andersen;

Book review: Distance education and distributed learning - Charalambos Vrasidas; Gene V Glass;

Bounded community: Designing and facilitating learning communities in formal courses - Brent G. Wilson; Stacey Ludwig-Hardman; Christine L Thornam; Joanna C Dunlap;

Where there is no internet: Delivering health information via the Blue Trunk Libraries - Pascal Mouhouelo; Auguste Okessi; Marie-Paule Kabore;

Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen for food, agriculture and the environment - Introduction - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI);

The constructive role of international trade - Gerald C Nelson;

Agricultural science and technology needs for climate change adaptation and mitigation - Rudy Rabbinge;

Reducing methane emissions from irrigated rice - Reiner Wassmann; Yasukazu Hosen; Kay Sumfleth;

Synergies among mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development - Pete Smith;

The importance of property rights in climate change mitigation - Helen Markelova; Ruth Meinzen-Dick;

A future with no one living in poverty and hunger: Highlights from an international youth writing contest - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI);

Direct and indirect mitigation through tree and soil management - Brent M Swallow; Meine van Noordwijk;

Monitoring, reporting and verifcation methodologies for agriculture, forestry and other land use - Sean Smukler; Cheryl Palm;

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems - Mario Herrero; Philip K Thornton;

The potential for soil carbon sequestration - Rattan Lal;

Regional dialogue on renewed policy action for the poorest and hungry in South Asia - Paromita Shastry;

Agricultural and rural development for reducing poverty and hunger in Asia: In pursuit of inclusive and sustainable growth - Abdul Bayes;

Adaptation to climate change: Household impacts and institutional responses - Futoshi Yamauchi; Agnes Quisumbing;

The future of small farms for poverty reduction and growth - Peter Hazell; Colin Poulton; Steve Wiggins; Andrew Dorward;

Taking action for the world’s poor and hungry people: A way forward - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI);

Water shortage in mountain communities: Involving women in water management is the solution case study - Bamendakwe - Mbinkai Tazuh;

Attaining Intregrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) through environmental democracy for mountain communities - Electha Bih Tawah;

The Least Developed Countries Report, 2007 - United Nations;

Distance learning for teacher training in Brazil - Alvana Maria Bof;

Bridging information gaps between farmers, policymakers, researchers and development agents - Gesa Wesseler; Willemine Brinkman (ed);

Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: A spatial explanation - William D Sunderlin; Sonya Dewi; Atie Puntodewo; Daniel Müller; Arild Angelsen; Michael Epprecht;

Aligning needs and means: On culture, ICT and knowledge in development cooperation - Lars T Soeftestad;

Tropical deforestation, community forests, and protected areas in the Maya Forest - David Barton Bray; Elvira Duran; Victor Hugo Ramos; Jean-Francois Mas; Alejandro Velazquez; Roan Balas McNab; Deborah Barry; Jeremy Radachowsky;

Mapping the world’s intact forest landscapes by remote sensing - Peter Potapov; Aleksey Yaroshenko; Svetlana Turubanova; Maxim Dubinin; Lars Laestadius; Christoph Thies; Dmitry Aksenov; Aleksey Egorov; Yelena Yesipova; Igor Glushkov; Mikhail Karpachevskiy; Anna Kostikova; Ekaterina Tsybikova; Ilona Zhuravleva; Alexander Manisha;

Resources management in transition - Claudia Pahl-Wostl; Jan Sendzimir; Paul Jeffrey;

ICTs – Transforming agricultural extension? - Don Richardson;

Modification of land cover in a traditional agroforestry system in Spain: Processes of tree expansion and regression - Tobias Plieninger; Michael Schaar;

The role of the information and communications technology sector in expanding economic opportunity - William J Kramer; Beth Jenkins; Robert S Katz;

Communicating disasters - Nalaka Gunawardene; Frederick Noronha;

Health communication insights - Andrew Maxfield;

CBNRM Net: Knowledge management and networking for the global CBNRM community of practice - Lars T Soeftestad;

Mobile libraries: Where the schools are going to the students - Sarah Lucas;

Developing women's entrepreneurship and e-business in green cooperatives in the Asian and Pacific region - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);