1. 25/01/2016 Dans EDN 127, nous avons mentionné que plusieurs documents de MEAS (Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services) étaient en train d’être résumés et extraits pour le public de ECHO. Un article sur l’Implication des agriculteurs dans la vulgarisation agricole a été partagé dans EDN 128, et nous...
  2. 23/07/2015 Good intentions and viable solutions will have little impact unless we engage with farmers in ways that are meaningful to them. Farmers put a great deal of confidence in what they learn from fellow farmers’ experiences, and they are more likely to trust what they see over what they hear....
  3. 28/03/2016 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. Ressource principale 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. Ressource principale ECHO Partner Notre site Web héberge des vidéos de formation en faveur de l’agriculture durable dans les pays en développement. Si cela vous intéresse, nous espérons que vous trouverez des vidéos utiles pour vous et vos partenaires. Nous avons 14 catégories de vidéo d’Access Agriculture dans...
  8. 20/01/2017 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. 25/04/2017 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. 06/10/2015 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...