Diversity fair
- Competitive event of exhibiting local biodiversity to sensitize the community on value and use of conserving biodiversity.
- Helps in access of genetic diversity at community level.
Why diversity fair?
- Rediscovering of lost varieties.
- Calculating species richness.
- Institualization of biodiversity fair.
How to organize diversity fair?
- Preparatory phase:
- Sharing the concept of diversity fair with farming communities.
- Formulating the guiding principles of diversity fair.
- Implementation phase:
- Development of community workplan.
- Orientation and training
- Monitoring the group
- Publicizing the event
- Stall preparation
- Synthesis and evaluation phase:
- Sharing and learning the exhibition
- Roundup meeting about how effective the diversity fair is.