Community Based Biodiversity Management (CBM)

• Based on own knowledge.
• Available resources management to build up capacity of community.
• Strengthen capacity of farmers to conserve and manage biodiversity.
• Empowers farmers to manage biodiversity for social, economic and environmental benefits.

Key principles of CBM

• Providing platform for learning and change.
• Promoting good governance.
• Diversifying biodiversity.
• Empowering local communities.

CBM practices

A. Basket of choices:

a) Biodiversity/seed fairs

b) Traditional food festivals

c) CBR

d) Village gene-seed-grain-water bank

e) Diversity Block

f) Diversity kit

g) Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)

h) Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS)

i) Grass root breeding

j) Community Based Seed Production (CBSP)

k) value addition

l) Community Biodiversity Management Fund (CBM fund)

m) Village Biodiversity Conservation and Development Committee (VBCDC).

B. Provide diverse Benefits:

a) Social-Cultural Value Based Community Practices:

• Diversity/seed fairs
• Traditional food fairs
• Biodiversity Theater/ Drama
• Rural Poetry Journey

b) Economic value-based community practices:

• Value addition and Product diversification of local biodiversity
• Linking Biodiversity with Market.

c) Environment value-based community practices:

• Community seed banks
• Community biodiversity registers
• Biodiversity blocks
• Participatory Plant Breeding

d) Legal Value-based community Practices:

• Community Biodiversity Registers
• Participatory Plant Breeding