its dairy products and tourism. The three-level movement farming ("Dreistufenwirtschaft") is essential to the economy of the mountainous regions in Vorarlberg...

stables several times a year. Alpine transhumance is also called "Dreistufenwirtschaft" (literally "three stage economy") in German because the mountain...

season. In German, Alp farming is also called three-tier farming ("Dreistufenwirtschaft") because the pastures are managed in three tiers. In the spring...

small-scale farms in the 1990s. This so-called alpine transhumance ("Dreistufenwirtschaft" in German) shaped much of the landscape in the Alps and is still...