A crucial element of the strategy was to ensure that participating farmers were constantly hand-held and provided with both technical and material support to achieve what they had started. Each farmer was in constant touch with representatives of the implementing partner agency and this enabled them to address issues that arose along their efforts to ground the pilots.

The awareness and exposure exercises were instantly followed by grounding and establishing pilot demonstration plots at the participating household farms. These pilots served as training grounds of appropriate natural farming technologies with the objective of enhancing the hands-on-skills to adopt and replicate the new farming techniques.

A three-day exposure visit to Bethany Society located in Shillong and which involved an eleven hours road journey was organized. Participants for this exposure included members of households who volunteered to pilot the various techniques on their own plots. It was during this visit that various technologies of Sustainable Climate Smart Agriculture which included techniques like key-hole gardening, square foot gardening, the various composting techniques such as bokashi, vertical and vermicomposting, housed within Bethany Society establishment were demonstrated. A visit to a full-fledged farm where these techniques have been installed on a commercial basis was facilitated. This exercise supplemented their confidence in the productivity of this practice. 

Series of awareness programs were organized where participants from the village, representatives of the village council, and officials from the Block Office of Reiek Block participated. These programs focused on highlighting the value of home gardening for food security and nutritional enhancement which can be achieved by incorporating simple natural farming techniques. The techniques can be easily implemented and practiced by all villagers. It was during such programs that queries were explained through a close interaction between the community and members of Bethany Society, the implementing partner for the project.

Con este modelo se han implementado sistemas agrarios sostenibles, producción agroecológica de hortalizas, ganadería eficiente con silvopasturas, elaboración de productos regionales ( derivados lácteos, mermeladas), turismo ecológico, etc.

El alto grado de compromiso asumido e involucramiento por parte  de la comunidad  han sido  factores determinantes en el éxito de este caso, es dable mencionar que este proyecto fue impulsado y materializado por personas que son mayormente oriundas de la región, lo que genera un mayor sentido de pertenencia y de compromiso.

Este "plan de vida" funciona como una herramienta integral de gestión que toma en consideración la preservación de zonas de vegetación natural, su restauración, la continuidad del paisaje, generando a su vez alternativas productivas sustentables y consensuadas con pobladores locales.

It is necessary to monitor the impact of invasive species control exercised by Vanille concessionaires on the return and maintenance of native species. A first follow-up was organized in 2014-2015 on a pilot plot. The next follow-up will be organized in 2020, with a review of the effect on all the concessions granted.

At the same time, forestry officers and the ONF land department keep concession maps up to date, noting for each concessionaire whether he or she is complying with the instructions, and if not, noting this in a specific register to ensure follow-up of the corrective measures requested of the concessionaires.

The concession contract regulates the cultivation of vanilla undergrowth in Réunion's public forests. In particular, it prohibits all cutting of native species and only authorizes the elimination of invasive exotic species. In addition, in the biological reserve, concessionaires have been given specific terms and conditions to ensure that they contribute to biodiversity conservation. All Vanille concessionaires were brought together (in the field) to remind them of the issues at stake in the reserve, their important role and the need for them to preserve native species (whether woody species, ferns or orchids, on the ground or as epiphytes on trees). They were given a one-day training course on recognizing the native and exotic species present in the RB and more specifically in their concessions (which they were already very familiar with, having worked in this type of forest for many years).

The primary objective of the Biological Reserve planning document is to conserve biodiversity. To draw up this management plan, specific work was carried out on existing vanilla concessions and in areas where new concessions would contribute to the RB's conservation objectives. Areas of high naturalness were excluded to ensure their conservation and the implementation of diffuse control actions.