ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses in what ways the NARS and especially the NGOs will be able to respond to the challenges and in what ways they will be most constrained. It focuses on the capacities and weaknesses in the NARS that derive from their technological focus, resource base, organizational structure and approach to participation. This concentration of resources allows the NARS to operate in each of the sub-systems of the ATS at a national level. NARS have been primarily organized along commodity lines. NARS have in general sustained a focus on Green Revolution types of technology and have only limited experience in low-input and indigenous farmer practices. NGOs argue that their institutional organization is the opposite to that of NARS. NGOs precede their work with diagnostic assessments in the region, evaluating current farmer practices.
