Food Security in some mountain areas can be improved through cash crop farming based on mountain-specific comparative advantages, such as favourable agroclimatic conditions. However, governments need to play a critical role here - they must focus on improving local capability; on generating appropriate technologies and ensuring that these are transferred to farmers; on developing markets and the necessary linkages to them; and on building appropriate physical-social infrastructures. There is also a need to collate existing data and create a database on the extent of poverty and hunger.
