| dc.description.abstract | The global community fails to manage farmland the way it demands for and
consequently faces major challenges loss of farmland as a result of urban expansion.
This is also the case in Norway. While the topic of farmland preservation has received
attention in the political debate, several politicians and multiple grassroots organizations
are dissatisfied with the current state of farmland preservation. Politicians in opposition
to the government are accompanied by farmer unions, environmental organizations,
and farmland preservation alliances in the demand for better farmland preservation. In
parallel to this, there is a growing trend of alternative food networks throughout Norway.
This study investigates four organizations, three political associations active in the
farmland preservation movement, and a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
initiative, with the aim to generate more knowledge about how grassroots actors can
function as knowledge bearers and agents of change in the political sphere affecting
farmland preservation and farmland management. The main research question is: How
can farmland preservation movements and alternative food networks contribute to build
alliances between actors involved in farmland management? The results provide
contextual knowledge about the situation of farmland preservation and management in
a municipality in the central part of Eastern Norway. Through the perspectives of four
actors who engage in preserving farmland in the case area, this study presents valuable
information about how grassroots actors can function as knowledge bearers and agents
of change in the political sphere affecting farmland preservation and farmland
management. | nb_NO |
