One possible approach to organizing the priority-setting process could be as follows. Steps 1 and 2 could be done through a workshop, preceded for step 2 by desk studies. A second workshop may be used to address steps 4 and 5. This would be followed by further field work for step 6, valuation and ranking. The process would be concluded with a third workshop.
Feedback is possible at any step.
The technical leadership of the different steps may vary, but there should be one overall coordinator for the whole process. Participants Interdisciplinary survey teams. Ranking of Products - cf. Identification of Priority Species - cf. Information required Researchability of candidate species, their expected adoption, and modifiers Methods Workshop or desk survey by mail to rate candidate species across criteria representing researchability, expected adoption, and modifiers Time and resources Two or three days for workshop.