Apple markets in mountainous Uttarakhand face weak price discovery. eNAM improves integration in plains, but digital exclusion and poor infrastructure heighten farmers’ climate vulnerability.

Mountain regions are climate-vulnerable and food insecure, yet home to indigenous tribes with unique, nutrient-dense dietary practices that food policies should promote for enhanced food security.

Due to inadequate working and living conditions as well as a lack of possibilities to combine the “alpine farm life” with the “other life”, there is a shortage of skilled labor on Swiss alpine farms.

The study explores climate change’s impact on agriculture in Ladakh. Rising temperatures, declining precipitation, and erratic weather affected staple crops, prompting an adaptive strategies.

Rice is life in upland Laos. Hydrologic modeling identified how changes to upland rice production on hillslopes could affect water availability for paddy rice irrigation in lowland areas.

Spatial trends in the elevational rain/snow transition of a snow-dominated watershed are quantified over the last 40 years and compared against streamflow timing and magnitude.