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ECHO North America Regional Impact Center 2024 Training Calendar 2024-01-30
ECHO North America is excited to announce this year's 2024 training calendar. Please join us on the global demonstration farm this year as we learn and inspire together. Located in North Fort Myers, Florida, our training center contains 5 acres of sustainable agriculture demonstrations that act as a living classroom for people heading to the tropics. Our experienced trainers will walk you through topics related to smallholder production in the tropics, syntropic agriculture, agricultural design, and more! If you have any questions, please email study@echonet.org.
Updated Plant Information about Katuk 2024-01-23
After some questions came in from ECHO's network, our agriculture technical and seed bank staff have updated our Plant Information Sheet about kayuk (Sauropus androgynus). Katuk is a perennial green that grows well in lowland, warm regions of the subtropics and tropics. Its leaves are high in protein and taste similar to garden peas. It prefers partial shade and develops into a bushy shrub when the tips are harvested frequently.
Read the whole plant information sheet online
Note technique de ECHO 101: Brouette en bambou centrée sur la charge 2024-01-16
Une brouette standard, avec la roue à l’avant, fait peser environ la moitié du poids de la charge sur l’utilisateur. Une brouette centrée sur la charge place la roue au centre de la charge, transférant 90 % ou plus du poids sur la roue plutôt que sur l’utilisateur. Cela permet d’utiliser l’appareil pour le transport sur de longues distances sur des chemins étroits. La brouette centrée sur la charge est un modèle chinois ancien. Le chargement était placé autour et au-dessus d’une grande roue (d’environ 1 mètre de diamètre). Cela permettait aux utilisateurs de transporter de lourdes charges (y compris des passagers) sur de nombreux kilomètres sur des sentiers étroits. ECHO a mis au point un modèle miniature qui utilise une roue de bicyclette. Cette brouette centrée sur la charge, illustrée dans la figure 1 et qui fait l’objet du présent document, peut être construite avec du bambou ou d’autres matériaux disponibles localement.
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EDN Numéro 162 Maintenant disponible 2024-01-09
Sommaire:
- La culture en courbes de niveau et les barrières vivantes pour les petits exploitants agricoles
- Le Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
- De la Banque de semences de ECHO: Le riz séché au four comme dessiccateur pour le séchage des semences
- Livres, Sites Web, et Autres Ressources: L’application mobile ECHOcommunity - Gestion des ressources
La culture en courbes de niveau et les barrières vivantes pour les petits exploitants agricoles
Robert Walle
Extrait:
En augmentant les distances, il est important de prendre en compte les espèces de barrières, leur efficacité en matière de conservation du sol et de l’eau, ainsi que l’espace nécessaire aux cultures. Par exemple, les arbres agroforestiers seuls sont généralement des barrières moins efficaces que les graminées. En revanche, en les combinant, ils peuvent fournir du fourrage légumineux tout en conservant le sol et l’eau.
Share what you know about SE Asia Wild Foods! 2024-01-02
Plant Planet Plate is a recently launched project in Oddar Meanchey Province, Northwest Cambodia by Dr. Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, a medical anthropologist and a National Geographic Explorer and Green Shoots Foundation, a UK/Cambodian registered NGO running a permaculture farm and training space in Oddar Meanchey. Plant Planet Plate aims to celebrate and document foraging and wild-food knowledge in Cambodia and demonstrate that building resilient landscapes and understanding food history can improve food security and curb the impacts of climate change.
We feel this project is timely as Cambodia's rich biodiversity is at threat from climate change, loss of habitat, and changes in ecosystem. Documentation of species is limited and if any, has been orally passed down by elders, family members, and Khmer Traditional Medicine healers. However, the role these plants play in supplementing diets (particularly during COVID 19 for example) shows how important it is to not only begin recognizing the villagers, foragers, and healers as the true custodians of this knowledge but also preserve their word because it's contribution to the plant-world, conservation efforts and academia is unmatched.
In June 2023 the team comprising, Dr Thao, Muneezay Jaffery from Green Shoots Foundation, and Mr Sarin Sak, a local agronomist, set out in the vicinity of Samraong District of Oddar Meanchey Province to conduct 50 interviews with households on the wild-foods they gather, how they eat them, where they go forage and so forth. This information and other details of the plants will be compiled into a database that will be available in English, French, and Khmer as essays for the use of academics, plant enthusiasts, growers, and food enthusiasts.
At the end of the 50 interviews (around four weeks) we have around 125 names of plants in Khmer and we are now taking the step to find corresponding scientific names, common names, and plant families. So far, using various sources, we have around 40 scientific names for the plants and are looking to the ECHO Community to help us identify a few more!
One thing we know is that plants and biodiversity don't observe political/administrative boundaries. Many of the plants enjoyed in Cambodia would also be popular in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Asia. So we hope the ECHO Community from those regions and within the diaspora will help us verify names of plants and any other details they can provide.
Note technique de ECHO 100: Systèmes de litière pour la production animale 2023-12-19
Les systèmes de litière sont une approche de production animale hygiénique et intégrée dans laquelle les animaux sont élevés dans un espace clos sur un sol de litière biologique. Les systèmes avec une litière épaisse sont parfois appelés systèmes à litière profonde. Les systèmes de litière vous permettent de donner la priorité à la santé animale en offrant des conditions similaires à celles de l’environnement naturel des animaux. Les systèmes de litière aident également à capturer les déchets animaux et à les convertir en formes utilisables pour la production agricole.
Les animaux peuvent être élevés sur un système de litière pendant une partie ou la totalité du cycle de production selon le contexte de l’agriculteur. Ces systèmes ne produisent pas autant que les systèmes industriels mais peuvent être plus rentables pour les petits agriculteurs en réduisant à la fois les risques et les coûts. ECHO connaît les systèmes de litière pour porcs, lapins, volailles et ruminants.
I-TEC Installs Solar Panels for ECHO Florida 2023-12-12
August may not be the preferred month to be installing solar panels on a shop roof in Florida, but our intrepid friends from I-TEC would not be denied. How we appreciate their good work!
I-TEC is a non-denominational ministry utilizing volunteers to meet the technical needs of missionaries and not-for-profit organizations worldwide.
Click here to see I-TEC pictures of the project.
Now Available! ECHO Asia 2024-2025 Seed Catalog 2023-11-28
ECHO Asia's Seed Bank recently released the 2024-2025 seed catalog. This new and improved catalog has a unique format to help you, our network member, better understand each seed and crop better. The catalog is grouped colorfully by category (fruits, grains, herbs & integrated pest management, leguminous trees, oil seeds, pulses & green manure cover crops, vegetables, and seed bundles). Each seed description includes a photo, elevation information, and other helpful details such as if the crop can be used for fodder or has some level of toxicity. If you are looking for a particular species or variety, the index at the back of the catalog can help you find what you are looking! Plants are indexed by Latin name, English common name, and Thai common name.
Download the catalog (PDF) Browse the ECHO Asia seed store online
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ECHO is looking for a Director to lead our East Africa Regional Impact Center, located in Arusha, Tanzania 2023-11-21
After many years of service, our Director of the ECHO East Africa Regional Impact Center is retiring and we are seeking a successor director to lead our dynamic East Africa Regional Impact Center team to continue to impact the region via the ECHO network. Since 2012, ECHO’s East Africa Impact Center has been serving our network across the region. The second of four RICs around the world, they have proven the adaptability and robustness of the RIC model to contextualize ECHO’s services to the unique needs and ecological/cultural contexts of those we serve. The first ECHO East Africa Director is now planning to retire in late 2024. This will allow the right candidate time to overlap with this passionate and highly effective individual.
The new director will expand and strengthen the capacity of the diverse regional network to defeat hunger and improve lives through sustainable food and agricultural strategies in East Africa. The director is responsible for building upon the current regional network and serving that network with joy by identifying, validating, sharing, and measuring the efficacy of contextualized agricultural strategies (4 core functions of ECHO) with technical excellence. In short, network building, team building, and training experience will be essential qualities of an effective director.
This position encompasses roles and responsibilities that are critical to the continued relevance of ECHO in the coming years to defeat hunger and bring restoration to people and the planet. Please help us share this opportunity with your network as we trust God to provide the perfect person for this time in ECHO's history.
Invitation au Réseau ECHO : 3e édition de la Fête internationale de la science -“Science(s) & Agenda 2030, et au-delà” 2023-11-13
Le Cirad, INRAE, l’IRD et la Représentation permanente de la France auprès des Nations unies à Rome coorganisent la 3ème édition de la « Fête internationale de la science : agriculture, alimentation, environnement » le 22 novembre de 13 h 00 à 15 h 30 (heure de Rome), en ligne.
Tous les membres du ECHOcommunity sont invités à participer à cet événement.
Un grand merci et n’oubliez pas de vous inscrire