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Gramin Sadak NatakGramin Sadak Natak (rural roadside drama) has play writerswho spend a few nights in the village to pick up a local storybase for the drama. Local farmers and professional actorstake part in the street drama to sensitize fellow farmers onthe value of plant diversity using poetry, dance and songsat local socio-cultural setting.Traditional Food FairThe traditional food fair is a marketingconcept, which adds value to traditionalcrops and products. It helps to link themarket with eco-tourism (national andinternational) and food culture inorder to promote localproducts and local cuisine.Diversity FairThe diversity fair is the most popularand useful participatory method for sensitizing fromlocal community to Minister levels. From the farmers'perspective, diversity fair is the best way to participate inproject activities to share information and materials. Fromthe PGR researchers perspective, this is an entry point toreach the farming community; to locate genetic diversity; andto identify custodians of genetic resources more preciselythan the conventional exploration mission.Diversity fair has been found to be a simpleand low cost approach for locatingbiodiversity. It helps to identify custodians ofrare and unique crop genetic resources andlocal knowledge, and establish links for futurestudies.Strengthening Community-Based On-Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity:Experiences from Nepal349
Diversity BlockThe diversity block is atechnique to characterizelocal landraces underconditions of typicalfarmer management.Germplasm to begrown in thediversity blockmay be selectedfrom the materialsdisplayed indiversity fairs orfrom community member's seed stocks. Farmers usingtraditional practices manage the crops, while farmers andscientists monitor the plants to observe and recordagromorphological characteristics. In Nepal, it was used tomeasure and analyze agromorphological characters and tovalidate farmer descriptors. Farmers were invited to watchthe diversity block in the field and determine whether thefarmers are consistent in naming and describing varieties.A Diversity KitDiversity kit is a set of smallquantity of different seedsmade available to farmers.Seed harvested fromdiversity blocks could beused to assemble adiversity kit, which isgiven to farmers duringinterview as a gift. Thiskind of informalresearch and developmentencourages farmers tosearch for, select andmaintain fixed lines andpromote deployment of diversity in situ.350Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural BiodiversityA Sourcebook
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