Agricultural production in mountain regions poses a significant threat to the integrity of ecosystems and the natural environment, demanding urgent action to ensure the resilience of these sensitive landscapes. Today, the interplay and effects of several environmental, agronomic, and socio-economic pressures increasingly undermine not only the long-term sustainability but also the cultural heritage they embody. At the same time, mounting evidence shows that biodiversity and nature-based solutions, ranging from within-field plant community management to landscape-scale compositional and configurational diversification, can leverage ecological processes, enhance ecosystem service-based multifunctionality and strengthen the sustainability and resilience of these landscapes.

For the session “Pathways to resilient agricultural landscapes in mountain regions: Integrating nature-based solutions for sustainable farming”, we invite contributions that explore and demonstrate how biodiversity, stakeholder-driven, and multi-scale nature-based interventions can foster more integrated, diversified and multifunctional agricultural landscapes. We especially encourage submissions that adopt inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and incorporate stakeholder perspectives, including those of farmers, consultants, cooperatives, policymakers, and local communities, whose knowledge, priorities, and constraints are crucial for the design, adoption, and long-term success of nature-based strategies.

We welcome empirical, modelling, conceptual, and policy-oriented work that identifies knowledge gaps, evaluates ecosystem service outcomes, proposes and test innovative and nature-based solutions, or provides multi-actor and cross-scale insights to support and enhance the resilience, adaptive capacity and multiple benefits in agriculture-dominated socio-ecological systems in mountain regions.