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Implementation comprises of the following steps: - Identifying existing farmers/collective that practices organic farming or is interested in the switch - Baseline studies to understand potential of the chosen sites - Training and capacity building in ecological farming done to ensure setting up a rice diversity block and a seed bank in the community - Assisting in documentation and strengthening the collective to organize campaigns/festivals for popularizing the efforts - Providing campaign materials, multi-actor orientations and cross community visits for learning and sharing - Establishing market linkage and supply chain to get premier price through sales in niche areas like Organic stores Ensuring continuous monitoring through local field partners has been a challenge in the previous years, with exceeding dependency on core agency to supplement these gaps. Constant followup and engaging with the field partners for problem solving has been effective to a large extent, but an overarching communication framework to document quantitative data consistently is still in need. - Specific activities and/or specifically what your solution does to address the identified problems above in the Context Analysis section - How you ensured your solution was adopted and promoted change in human activities - Enabling conditions - Key success factors - Any obstacles and how you overcame them