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  1. Bringing Back the Pollinators

    2014-10-20 Worldwide, the number of insect pollinators has declined sharply in recent years. Beekeepers have experienced heavy loss of honey bee colonies; in the United States, the number of managed colonies is half of what it was sixty or seventy years ago (USDA). The number of wild pollinators has also...
    Pollinators Bee Push-pull Sustainable Beekee...
     

  2. Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    2015-01-20 The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics...
     

  3. Bamboo

    2016-10-18 Bamboo’s reputation is largely based upon intrinsic peculiarities of certain varieties. The plant can grow a meter a day and is the staple diet for giant pandas; though a grass, it can grow to 30 meters tall with hollow wooden stems which are stronger than steel; and bamboo has a reproductive...
    Bamboo Bamboo preservation Appropriate Techno...
     

  4. Sorting out the Annonas

    2019-01-29 The ECHO Online Seed Catalog is offering an addition to our collection of Annonas, which are in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. Rollinia mucosa, commonly called biriba, rollinia, or wild sugar apple, can grow in either sun or shade and is a larger tree than many in this family. Biriba’...
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  5. Laurel Wilt Disease

    2018-07-18 “Save the Guacamole!” is the battle cry of a Florida campaign to fight the fungal disease killing avocado (Persea americana) trees throughout Florida. Laurel wilt disease is caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola and spread by the redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus) (Figure 6). The...
    Avocado Plant Disease Disease Control Latin America and ...
     

  6. System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

    2015-03-26 The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a methodology aimed at increasing the yield of rice produced in farming. It is a low water, labor intensive, organic method that uses younger seedlings singly spaced and typically hand weeded with special tools. It was developed in 1983 by the French...
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  7. Revitalizing Smallholder Farming in Africa: Insights from China’s Science and Technology Backyard Model

    Phiri, A. T., Zhao, X., & Chen, Q. (2024). Revitalizing Smallholder Farming in Africa: Insights from China’s Science and Technology Backyard Model.Research on World Agricultural Economy,5(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.36956/rwae.v5i2.1042 Smallholder farmers are crucial to African agriculture,...
     

  8. Peacemaking Among People in Conflict

    2015-02-03
    Conflict Management East Africa
     

  9. 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...
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  10. Symposium on Improving Nutrition in Dryland Areas

    The Amaranth Institute, ECHO East Africa, and World Vision Tanzania, welcome you to Arusha, Tanzania for this jointly organized symposium. With a great anticipation we hope that the molding together of the topics discussed, as well as the networking which will occur this week will significantly...
    East Africa