A training manual of best practices has been developed for home gardening, health and sanitation, food processing and preservation, and nutrition and family meal planning. Using this manual, a workshop was carried out in Busia County to demonstrate a number of organic agricultural technologies to 24 representatives from seven sub-counties. Training included methods for setting up and sustainably maintaining a nutritious home garden.

As a result of this training, 7 schools, 7 community health extension units, and 7 farmer groups have established garden demonstration plots that include a range of diverse vegetables.

Access to traditional foods can be a barrier to their integration into the marketplace. Under the brand name “Hela bojun - True Sri Lankan taste”, nine market outlets opened across the country for the sale of traditional foods and targeted agrobiodiversity.  The market outlets are successfully serving as entry points for promoting traditional varieties and healthy eating as well as raising awareness of the BFN project.

The initiative has generated new market opportunities for traditional food sellers and producers of biodiversity products such as honey, jaggery, treacle, bananas and organic products. The shops also promote underutilized crops identified from the baseline surveys at the pilot sites, including medicinal plants such as the water lily Nymphaea pubescens (olu in Sinhala) used in Ayurvedic medicine.

Gastronomic events across Turkey are celebrated events raising awareness about the importance of traditional foods for local traditions. These events support the country’s age-old tradition of using wild edible plants as well as the local cuisines and food cultures based on this biodiversity.

The Alaçatı Herb Festivals have included everything from seminars on nutrition and diets or food and cooking to educational activities for children and visits to the Wild Edible Plants Collection Garden. The 2016 Alaçatı Herb Festival showcases best practices for mobilizing biodiversity to improve dietary diversity resulting from the BFN experience will be showcased during a special scientific session devoted to the project.

BFN Brazil has demonstrated great success in collaborating with schools to raise awareness about biodiversity for food and nutrition. Some schools are being guided towards setting up tree nurseries for native species and growing non-conventional leafy vegetables in school gardens in collaboration with Embrapa Hortaliças.

Additionally through a collaboration with the National Fund for Educational Development and the Centre for Excellence in Tourism of the University of Brasília, a project titled Educating through School Gardens and Gastronomy now includes select BFN species in school meal recipes to encourage healthy eating habits, dietary diversification and greater appreciation of Brazilian biodiversity.