Perspectives on Mountain Farming Resilience

This workshop explores social, economic, and environmental challenges facing mountain farming, particularly under climate change. Mountain regions are vulnerable to climate impacts, market volatility, regulatory constraints, and demographic shifts, disrupting traditional practices and threatening livelihoods. However, mountain farming demonstrates resilience through local knowledge, sustainable land management, and social networks. A process-relational view of resilience highlights continuous reconfiguration within a system, enabling persistence, adaptation, or transformation through ongoing adjustments of social, ecological, and economic interactions. Mountain farming requires flexible, interconnected strategies to navigate changes and ensure long-term viability. Drawing on global case studies, this workshop invites researchers to examine how mountain farming, including high pasture farming, persists, adapts, or transforms amid rapid and gradual changes. It explores how resilience can be enhanced through sustainable agriculture, community-led governance, tourism interactions, and knowledge sharing. Key questions include: • How can policies support resilience in mountain regions? • What role does broader societal interaction play, such as tourism or high-quality products? • How can gaps between conflicting policies and the realities of mountain farmers be bridged? This session fosters interdisciplinary discussions, highlights best practices, and identifies pathways to strengthen mountain farming resilience against global challenges.