Resources Tagged: Asia

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  1. Seed Banking & Saving

    2017-05-24 This presentation discusses the importance and benefits of seed saving the advantages of good seeds how to identify and collect good seed principles of harvesting seed seed propagation seed cleaning ... and many other things!
    Seed Bank Seed Saving Asia

  2. Water Treatment System 300 Liters per Day

    2017-05-23 This instruction manual is for the "blue barrel" water filtration system producing up to 300 liters of water per day.
    Water Filters Biochar Water Treatment Asia

  3. Water Treatment System 2,000 liters per day

    2017-05-23 This instruction manual is for the concrete tank water filtration system producing up to 2,000liters of water per day.
    Water Filters Biochar Water Treatment Asia

  4. Strengthening Informal Indigenous Seed Systems in Southeast Asia

    With support from USAID’s Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP), Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization’s Asia Impact Center (ECHO Asia), Maejo University, Thailand, and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) initiated efforts in 2010 to begin strengthening...
    Seed Sources Asia

  5. Indian Farmers Are Turning Dumping Grounds into Water Saving Basin

    Dobasare not water harvesting structures or reservoirs, and our ancestors have never thought of them in that way. Instead, they are outcomes of the clay material preparation process, within homesteads, used in mud house building on a family’s land. Millions of Dobas - a water harvesting structure...
    Water Harvesting Asia

  6. MekongInfo hosted by the Mekong River Commission

    MekongInfo is a platform for sharing of information and experiences in integrated water resources management in the Mekong River Basin. MekongInfo is hosted by theMekong River Commission, an intergovernmental body created in 1995 by an agreement between the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR,...
    Asia

  7. In India, Farmers Are Taking a Novel Approach to Drought Adaptation

    2017-07-31 This week’s guest post is an interview with ECHOcommunity member Shibesh Das who has been very helpful in sharing information and ideas with the network. This interview is reposted with permission from Food Tank. TheDoba-based Livelihood Programis an initiative of the Rajadighi Community Health...
    Water Harvesting Rainwater Harvesting Water Conservation Water Water Storage Systems Water Supply Asia

  8. Options for Soil and Farmer Friendly Agriculture in the Highlands of Northern Thailand

    1998-01-19 Highland agriculture in northern Thailand is undergoing rapid changes, some for better, some for worse. These changes affect the livelihood of highland minority peoples as well as the livelihood of large rural and urban lowland Thai communities. They also affect the ecological balance of the rich...
    Asia

  9. Planting Roots with Non-Timber Forest Products

    Farming Matters Magazine -- Burnette, R. and A. Bicksler (2016) -- In recent decades, resource challenged hill tribe farmers and gardeners in northern Thailand have recognised the importance of various threatened species that yield non-timber forest products.Conserving these species in...
    Asia

  10. Agrosilvopastoral Systems in Northern Thailand and Northern Laos: Minority Peoples’ Knowledge versus Government Policy

    Abstract :Traditional agrosilvopastoral systems have been an important component of the farming systems and livelihoods of thousands of ethnic minority people in the uplands of Mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on a combination of qualitative and participatory inquiries in nine ethnic minority...
    Asia