Inside ...

• EDITORIAL: International Year of Moun- tains: A call to Action ... 2
• FEATURE ARTICLES:
  • Tourism and Sustainable Mountain Development ...... 3
  • Challenges Facing Mountain Women ....... 3
  • FAO Mountain Program ... 5
• REGIONAL UPDATES .... 6
  • Africa ....... 6
  • Asia Pacific ...... 8
  • Europe ...... 11
  • Latin America ..... 13
  • North America..... 14
  • Global ...... 15
• WHAT'S NEW...... 17
• MOUNTAIN CALENDAR ... 19

• Secretariat
  • Egbert Pelinck International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Convenor
  • D. Jane Pratt The Mountain Institute (TMI)
  • Hubert Zandstra International Potato Centre (CIP/CONDESAN)
• Regional Contacts
  • ASIA/PACIFIC: Shahid Akhtar, ICIMOD P.O. Box 3226 Kathmandu, Nepal tel: +977 1 525 313 fax: +977 1 524 509 telex: 2439 ICIMOD NP
    email : info@apmn.mtnforum.org web : http://apmn.mtnforum.org
  • EUROPE: Françoise Mees, European Mountain Forum 28 Rue Mauverney CH 1196 Gland, Switzerland tel : +41 22 999 02 24 fax : +41 22 999 00 20
    email :info@emf.mtnforum.org web :http://europe.mtnforum.org
  • LATIN AMERICA: Ana Maria Ponce CIP/CONDESAN Apartado Postal 1558 Lima 100 Peru tel: +51 1 349 6017 fax: +51 1 349 5638
    email : info@alc.mtnforum.org web : http://alc.mtnforum.org
  • GLOBAL NODE AND INTERIM NODE FOR AFRICA, AND NORTH AMERICA: Elizabeth Byers, Jason Espie, TMI Main and Dogwood Streets P.O. Box 907 Franklin, WV 26807 USA tel: +1 304 358 2401 fax: +1 304 358 2400
    email : info@mtnforum.org web : http://www.mtnforum.org

  The purpose of the Mountain Forum Bulletin is to facilitate information exchange with members of the Mountain Forum who do not have access to email or to the Internet, by providing a printed medium. The articles included are only a small subset of the many contributions by members to the Mountain Forum discussion lists and world wide web site. We have tried to include articles or excerpts which are representative of the different interests and regional activities of the Mountain Forum.