This study examines negotiation processes on water usage in a village in the Swiss Alps, focusing on actor-network dynamics during irrigation renewal, identifying conflicts, synergies, and adaptation.
User-based Pasture Management in Kyrgyzstan: Achievements, Challenges, and Trends
Mobile animal husbandry has played an important cultural and economic role in Kyrgyzstan since historical times. This contribution traces recent developments, placing the focus on achievements, trends
Bridging the local-global gap: Strategic embedding in the Alpine wool sector
Our research examines the impact of globalization on the Alpine wool industry, focusing on regional networks, strategic embeddedness, and how local value creation can persist despite global shifts.
The contribution of the vegetation to the resilience of farms in the face of climate change: a case study of agro-pastoral transhumant systems in the French Alps
This study explores how transhumant sheep farms in the French Alps build resilience to climate change. It highlights key aspects of vegetation-based strategies according to farms’ mobility patterns
Indigenous Agricultural Practices and Pollinator Ecology: Assessing Diversity, DNA Barcoding, and the Impact of Forest Fires on Pollinator Communities in Mandakini catchment, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand.
Indigenous agriculture techniques have a significant impact on pollinator ecology, especially in biodiverse and environmentally sensitive area such as Mandakini catchment in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand.
Terrace rice farming: a sustainable water management and sustainable farming technique used in Nepal
Water scarcity causes migration and hostile living. Reduced terrace farming affects water flows and agriculture. Reviving terrace farming, improving water recharge, improving farming and livelihoods.
The correlation between causes and burning in agricultural area in Thai highland
In Thai highland, agricultural burning areas were positively correlated with 4 factors: steeper slopes, production of upland rice and low land rice, age of the household head, and family size.
The transformative capacity of transdisciplinary research in mountains
Transdisciplinary research can transform mountains by promoting products, services, policies and strategies that address unsustainable trends and contribute to Living Well.
Migration, Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity in Bhutan
This paper explores the lives of farming communities in rural Bhutan in the context of increasing out-migration and climate change.
Linking biodiversity, pastoralism, cultural heritage via education for sustainable development (ESD) in the Carpathian Region
Cross-sectoral activities of the Carpathian Convention aiming to contribute to safeguarding of Pastoralism in the Carpathian region will be presented, with a focus on education and awareness-raising.