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  1. ECHO Agricultural Conference 2012

    ECHOAgricultural Conference 2012 Publisher [United States] : ECHO, [2012] Media: DVD Summary: Speakers will share practical solutions to agricultural challenges, personal experiences and strategies for improving the lives of millions who daily face the threat of starvation. The event offers an...
    DVD 012 ECH

  2. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    Jeffrey D. Sachs A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top...
    339.4 SAC

  3. Animal Integration and Feeding Strategies for the Tropical Smallholder Farm: Approaches and Methods for Increasing Sustainability and Profitability

    Keith O. Mikkelson Copyright 2019 Keith Mikkelson – ECHO Asia Impact Center PDF available! CLICK HERE FOR OTHER TRANSLATIONS! Integrated livestock systems can provide many benefits. With careful planning and by starting small, most farmers will be able to incorporate cows, goats, chickens, or hogs and improve the...
    636 MIK

  4. Learning Through the Eyes of Others

    Mundie Salm, Jeffery Bentley and Florent Okry There are many advantages to using video to share ideas with an audience. To start with, it combines both visual and audio dimensions, bringing situations and faraway contexts alive in a way that written texts or photos on their own cannot. Video is attractive for training purposes because it...

  5. Cities and Agriculture - Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems

    Edited by Henk de Zeeuw, Pay Drechsel As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which refl ect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based “state of the art”...

  6. Water Harvesting - Guidelines to Good Practices

    Rima Mekdaschi Studer and Hanspeter Liniger This publicationon “Water Harvesting – Guidelines to Good Practice”was mandated by IFAD, prepared by WOCAT in collaboration with MetaMeta and RAIN and funded by SDC and IFAD. Find out more about theproject "Water Harvesting". Water security is a prerequisite to achieve food security. Water...
    628.13 CDE

  7. Handbook for Integrated Soil Fertility Management

    Thomas Fairhurst A question that we get asked at ECHO is “Are you an organic farm?” And the answer is “No. Because of our unique soils, climate and objectives, we do use herbicides, insecticides and mineral fertilizer as needed. At the same time, we aim to minimize our use of and reliance on expensive inputs.”...
    333.761 ASH

  8. Effective Extension Methods

    Neil Rowe-Miller and Putso Nyathi What is extension? Traditionally extension has been an approach where information from researchers has been transferred to farmers through extension personnel. The information flow in that case was top down (from researchers to farmers). The assumption was that farmers lack knowledge and hence...

  9. La collecte de l’eau: Directives pour de bonnes pratiques

    Rima Mekdaschi Studer et Hanspeter Liniger (Centre pour le dévelopement et l’environnement, CDE) Ces directives donnent une vue d’ensemble des bonnes pratiques éprouvées de collecte de l’eau dans le monde entier. Celles-ci constituent un guide de référence pratique tout en offrant un support et une expertise technique spécifique pour l’intégration des technologies de collecte de l’eau dans...

  10. Resilient Seed Systems: Handbook, Second edition

    Vernooy, R.; Bessette, G.; Otieno, G. (eds.) The Resilient Seed Systems Handbook Second Edition, developed by a multidisciplinary team of Bioversity International researchers and research partners, is a tool that supports research and capacity building on resilient seed systems in the context of adaptation to climate change. The first...