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  1. Women and Agriculture

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    2017-06-06 A version of this material first appeared in EDN 134. Gender dynamics in relation to agriculture is a big topic, and one we had not previously written about in EDN. In recent years, widespread attention has been paid to the disparity that often exists between men and women when it comes to...
    Women in Agriculture Family Farm Women
     

  2. Agriculture Extension with Community-Level Workers: Lessons and Practices from Community Health and Community Animal Health Programs

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    2015-11-04 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Community Development CHW CAHW Community Health
     

  3. Seed Fairs: Fostering Local Seed Exchange to Support Regional Biodiversity

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    2014-06-01 When you come across an especially promising local variety of a crop grown in your area, how can you enable other farmers to try out this variety? If a farmer gives you 30 seeds of an exceptional variety, how might you go about distributing these? How does seed flow happen in and among...
    Biodiversity Seed Fair Seed Exchange Seed Systems Seed industry and ...
     

  4. Literacy and Learning Collection

    Certain resources demonstrate practical options for small-scale farmers, but also are adapted for literacy development. We will attempt to identify those in this collection along with reference to background references on literacy. Sources for further educational development are included.
     

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

    Key Resource 2005-12-30 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...
    Developing countri... Developing countri...
     

  6. Literacy and Agriculture

    2019-07-24 Several years ago, in a meeting, an ECHO staff member wondered aloud about the importance of literacy as it relates to agriculture. We received feedback from a few network members on this topic; their thoughts are shared below.
    Literacy
     

  7. Training and Learning Resources

    1996-10-19 Video Reviews: Interactive Workshops from World Vision Australia Review: World Vision Australia Publications Review:TogetherMagazine Published by World Vision International Review:Footsteps,A Quarterly Newsletter for Christians in Rural Development) HEART Missionary Training Institute Review:...
     

  8. Learning about and from Local Seed Systems

    2019-04-26 At ECHO’s 2014 International Agriculture Conference, Dr. Laura Meitzner Yoder gave a plenary talk titled “Planting Connections: Learning from local seed systems and fostering community seed exchange.” The talk was based on collaborative work that was done by the following: Rick Burnette, ECHO...
    Tropical Seeds ECHO Resources EDN Seed Systems Seed industry and ... Seed Exchange Seed Fair Seed Selection Seed Production
     

  9. Collective Marketing

    The editable source documents (.docx and .pub)of these materials are available in many other languages fromthe CFGB database. The source documents are updated periodically so check here for the most current formats. We encourage you to adapt the source for your purposes. The marketing exercises...
     

  10. Lifelong Learning: Book 3

    2022-04-26 This book, third in a series of four on the value of life-long learning, looks in detail at learning in a group. Other books in the series Book 1: Life-long learning: An overview Book 2: One-to-one learning Book 4: Leading a group Inspired by an article inFootsteps 90, the literacy publication of...
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