Alpine food products are often high-quality niche products, attracting specific consumer markets, and are often deeply integrated in local value chains. As consumers of such products often have a high awareness on climate change, they should also have a willingness to pay for additional climate change efforts of mountain farmers.

Mountain agriculture could thus serve as a “laboratory” to test low-carbon farming and food production techniques and for developing local value chains. The proposed pathways aim at further supporting low-carbon and organic farming techniques across the Alps and at integrating them in local value chains.