1. 25/1/2016 En EDN 127, mencionamos que se estaban resumiendo y destilando varios documentos de MEAS (Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services) para la audiencia de ECHO. En EDN 128, se compartió un artículo sobre Involucramiento del Productor en la Agricultura de Extensión y queremos continuar resaltando...
  2. 23/7/2015 Las buenas intenciones y las soluciones viables tendrán poco impacto a menos que nos involucremos con los productores en formas que sean significativas para ellos. Los productores tienen gran confianza en lo que aprenden de las experiencias de otros productores y es más probable que confíen en lo...
  3. 28/3/2016 Training participants in Koaran, Burkina Faso are praising the qualities of local workshops held in their community. Located about 250km from the capital, Ouagadougou, this remote village is one that is benefitting from farmer-to-farmer instruction. Across West Africa, this educational style has...
  4. 19/11/2015 Small farmers around the world are cautious when making changes to the practices they use or the crops they grow; especially as their family’s food and income depend on the harvest. However with challenges such as decreasing soil fertility or erratic rainfall, they are increasingly willing to...
  5. Presented at the ECHO International Agriculture Conference 2015 Small farmers around the world are cautious when making changes to the practices they use or the crops they grow; especially as their family’s food and income depend on the harvest. However with challenges such as decreasing soil...
  6. Recurso clave Sustainable Agriculture covers a wide range of topics: soil and water conservation, using organic matter to sustain soil fertility, pest management, cropping systems, livestock management, and many others. For agriculture to be sustainable, it must take into account not only the physical...
  7. Recurso clave ECHO Partner El sitio web de Access Agriculture ofrece videos de capacitación en apoyo a la agricultura sostenible de los países en desarrollo. Si este tema es de su interés, esperamos que encuentre videos útiles para usted y sus socios. Contamos con catorce categorías de videos, dentro de las...
  8. 20/1/2017 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. 25/4/2017 With 160 million people living in an area the size of the US state of Georgia, cropland is not an overly abundant resource in the country of Bangladesh. In order to meet the ever growing needs of its population, it is not uncommon for farmers in this delta nation to produce 3 consecutive seasons...
  10. 6/10/2015 Speaker Bio: Paul E. McNamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he is a Visiting Member of the faculty of Njala University (Sierra Leone). McNamara...