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ECHO Asia: Tropical Agriculture & Development (TAD) Course
Mon, 2 June 2025 » Sat, 7 June 2025
ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand
This 1-week course is designed for development workers, missionaries, and volunteers looking to engage their communities with low-cost, high-impact agricultural innovations and techniques. Participants will be introduced to various agricultural practices and technologies through classroom time and hands-on activities on the farm, learning to 'use what you have to make what you need.' This course is considered an 'introductory survey course' and will present a broad overview of many op...
Encuentro en Guatemala 1 - Cobán, Alta Verapaz
Wed, 4 June 2025 » Wed, 4 June 2025
Oficinas de ASECSA, Guatemala
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al hambre...
Encuentro en Guatemala 2 – Ciudad de Guatemala
Tue, 10 June 2025 » Tue, 10 June 2025
Oficinas centrales de Casa del Alfarero, Guatemala
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al hambre...
Cultivating the Rain with Ecological Agriculture
Sat, 14 June 2025 » Sat, 14 June 2025
Online,
Online | June 14 You are invited to attend the free online Zoom Ecological Agriculture class, Cultivating the Rain with Ecological Agriculture on Saturday, June 14, 2025, 9:00-11:00 am (Hawaii Standard Time), 2-4 pm Central Time, 19:00-21:00 (UTC). The class will share methods that work with nature to conserve & collect water, heal the soil, increase production, and reduce labor & inputs. Participants will learn strategies and practices that they can apply on any scale in backya...
Encuentro Nacional - Nicaragua
Tue, 17 June 2025 » Wed, 18 June 2025
Rayo de Sol, Nicaragua
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al ha...
Field guide to common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa
2019 3rd edition : 480 pages
East Africa boasts a tremendous natural wealth of flora – indigenous, naturalized and exotic. This field guide features some 600 of the trees, shrubs, palms and mangroves commonly found...
VSF Suisse
Around the world, 500 million people living in poverty depend on livestock farming for their livelihoods. If the animals are not well, the livelihoods and lives of these people are at risk. Healthy animals, on the other hand...
Food for the Hungry International
In FHIF, the final fruit of our work is a sustainable, healthy community that can keep growing itself. We call this "Vision of Community" (VOC). It must be the community's dream, not ours.
A key question for ever...
Food for the Hungry
Food for the Hungry is a Christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that designs, develops and delivers solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. Collaborat...
Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database ( MMPND )
The MMPND is now archived. This means that the internal links are still working, practically every file can be found but most external links are outdated, broken etc.
The data is still being updated via a blo...
One Million Voices of Agroecology
The One Million Voices citizen science initiative is a project implemented by the Agroecology TPP in collaboration with partners from the Agroecology Map, Asian Farmers Association (AFA), Groundswell International, the facil...
Agroecology Map
Agroecology Map is a digital platform for citizen science and open data that enables people to map and share agroecological experiences and practices. Our aim is to connect individuals and strengthen collaboration networks t...
Asia Impact Center
The ECHO Asia Impact Center & Small Farm Resource Center, exists to equip agriculture and community development practitioners to be more effective in their work serving smallholder farmers in Asia. We do this by...
Alley Cropping to Sustain Yields
Alley cropping is an agroforestry technique which has been widely promoted in agriculture development programs throughout the tropics. Many studies report increased harvests in alley crops versus control plots without trees....
Training Manual for Applied Agroforestry Practices
Editors: Michael Gold, Hannah Hemmelgarn, Caroline Todd, Kelsi Stubblefield, Alan Helland, Olga Romanova, Gina Beebe, & Mallory Daily. Cover photo credits, left-to-right: (top) Kelsi Stubblefield, UllrichG/Adobe Stock, H...