International Mountain Day 2015
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December as ‘International Mountain Day’. Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affair (MOCHTA) has been observing the day annually to create awareness on the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development, and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world.
The theme for this year's International Mountain Day is 'Promoting Mountain Products for Better Livelihoods’. This year, the celebration of this Day aims to highlight Mountain Product. Mountain peoples, who are largely family farmers, base their livelihood on highly diversified activities. Over generations they have developed unique, resilient and sustainable production system adapted to their local environments which favour the production of niche and mountain-specific product and services. Worldwide demand for quality, high value and trad
