Efforts for policy drivers for achieving sustainable livelihoods

• Access to credit is crucial for mountain farmers. Their specific conditions call for special granting criteria, including providing access to credit without collateral.

• National policies that support secure land tenure, access to requirements and empowerment of women are the key tosupportingt and sustain family farming in mountain farming

• Good farming practices should be scaled up andpreservede for disseminated

• Policies for mountain farming need to be embedded in overall policies of regional mountain development.

• Farmers in mountain areas should be compensated for mountain products and niche products for the downstream peoples.

• Specific mountain farming policies such as poverty alleviation, urbanization, market development, and infrastructure development should be embedded in the regional agenda.