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| THE FARMERS' RIGHTS
PROJECT: Farmers' Rights in Norway This report takes the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as the point of departure and analyses achievements, gaps and needs with regard to its implementation in Norway, focusing on its provisions on Farmers' Rights. Allthough much of the crop genetic diversity has been lost in Norway, substantial efforts are being made to save what is left, and to ensure Farmers’ Rights. The plant variety and seed marketing regulations are among the barriers to this work, but the degree of success depends on how they will be implemented in the time to come. Traditional knowledge is disappearing despite efforts to stop this and a consolidated strategy for this purpose is lacking. Economic incentive structures are not yet in place, except for some ‘seed money’, and thus most of the work is based on pure idealism. Farmers invovled in crop genetic diversity could participate better in decision making if they were better organized. The hearing system is seriously challenged by the EEA-memebership, due to a high ‘turn-over’ of decisions to be implemented at the national level, lack of transparency, and since Norwegian opinions have little impact against decisions from the EU. To have a say in these matters, it is probably more useful to link up with European organizations working on the issue. Nevertheless, much has happened during the past few years which support the realization of Farmers’ Rights and enhances the crop genetic diversity available to farmers.
Pages in this sub-section: 
 THE FIRST PHASE OF THE FARMERS' RIGHTS
PROJECT The History of Farmers'
Rights, a Guide to Central Documents and Literature An International Stakeholder Survey
on Farmers' Rights Case studies
on Farmers' Rights Farmers'
Rights in Peru Farmers'
Rights in India Farmers'
Rights in Ethiopia Farmers'
Rights in Norway Results from the first phase of the Farmers' Rights
Project as of 2006 A side-event
presenting preliminary findings from the Farmers' Rights project |
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Webpage last updated 18 November 2011