New Entrance to Mountain Farming in the Eastern Alps: Actors and their Routes into Agriculture, Motivation, Opportunities and Challenges (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. The aim of this dataset is to outline the results of a mixed-methods research on new entrants to mountain farming conducted in the case study regions Vorarlberg, Tyrol and South Tyrol (Eastern Alps). In a first survey stage, new entrants were identified and their routes into mountain farming as well as the resulting social and spatial impacts were recorded using semi-structured interviews. In the light of a multi-level perspective (MLP), further interviews with experts in local policy, regional planning and agriculture (on local, regional and federal level) provided detailed insights on the challenges and opportunities of new entrants. In a second stage, statistical data on agricultural training (adult education; ger: landwirtschaftliche Fachausbildung) at the agricultural colleges of the study regions and beyond were collected and merged. Both the 32 expert interviews and the 24 interviews with new entrants were recorded, transcribed and analyzed according to the Grounded Theory. Resulting qualitative data is available as interview transcripts and as a codebook. For reasons of research ethics, the data set contains only carefully selected transcripts of expert interviews. In addition to the qualitative and quantitative data outlined above, further information is provided to better understand the findings and data. This includes an anonymization guideline, both interview guidelines, the consent form, hard facts and metadata of all interviews, the current data management plan as well as figures.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。本数据集旨在呈现针对东阿尔卑斯山地区福拉尔贝格州、蒂罗尔州与南蒂罗尔州开展的山地农业新进入者混合方法研究成果。第一调研阶段，研究人员通过半结构化访谈确定山地农业新进入者，记录其入行山地农业的路径以及由此产生的社会与空间影响。基于多层次视角（Multi-level Perspective, MLP），研究团队针对地方、区域与联邦层面的地方政策、区域规划及农业领域专家开展补充访谈，为剖析新进入者面临的挑战与机遇提供了详实视角。第二阶段，研究人员收集并整合了研究区域及其他地区农业院校的农业培训（成人教育；德语：landwirtschaftliche Fachausbildung）相关统计数据。本研究对32份专家访谈与24份新进入者访谈均按照扎根理论（Grounded Theory）完成录音、转录与分析。所生成的质性数据以访谈转录稿与编码手册的形式对外提供。出于科研伦理考量，本数据集仅包含经过严格筛选的专家访谈转录稿。除上述质性与量化数据外，本数据集还提供了辅助资料以帮助使用者理解研究成果与数据集本身，包括匿名化指南、两份访谈提纲、知情同意书、所有访谈的核心事实与元数据、现行数据管理计划及相关图表。