Abstract
The purpose of the project is to analyse how Third World farming communities experience and react towards the change and influence imposed by increased globalisation. The project will identify constraints and opportunities of different development paths looking at alliances and partners chosen, external and local information channels, services and support offered by institutions at various levels and patterns of agricultural biodiversity management. A description of major elements of the traditional farming systems of the communities in question will constitute the basis for analysis of the changes. The Indian NGO the Green Foundation, an option of local agricultural biodiversity conservation aiming at improved livelihoods, will be focused. Fieldwork will be carried out in two communities: one where the Green Foundation has been active and one where the Green Foundation has not been active. A more comprehensive understanding of how globalisation is experienced and inducing changes in agricultural biodiversity management at the local level is important as a basis for Norwegian development assistance within this field. The knowledge obtained will also contribute to cover the need for experience and expertise by Norwegian state institutions, which participate in debates and negotiations, related to management of plant genetic resources internationally.
Norway