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 requirement and empowerment of women are the key to support and sustain family farming in mountain farming

• Good farming practices should be scale up and preserve for disseminated

• Policies for mountain farming need to 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, infrastructure development should be embedded in the regional agenda.