Our Mission - To nurture scholarly activities associated with geoecological research on rural landscapes (cf. farmscapes) of the Americas, by providing means to observe, dialogue, and explore various issues affecting neotropical mountains and to become a catalyst of geographical work towards sustainable and regenerative development, agrobiodiversity conservation, livelihood security and poverty alleviation. The NMC incubator of geoecological activities will seek to generate collaborative research networks, potential for training and development, dissemination and monitoring of environmental services of neotropical mountains.