01/09/2016 In This Issue: Announcements Nanenane Agriculture show SARI and ASA learning events Innovative resources ECHO East Africa News ECHO RIC’s Best Practices
01/04/2017 In This Issue: The 4th Bi-annual Symposium Appropriate Technology ECHO EA Seedbank Updates Highlights Innovation News in Brief ECHO RIC’s Best Practices
Conservation Agriculture (CA) has spread in the past 40 years to cover 105 million hectares of farmland worldwide (ACT 2008). CA’s effectiveness in retaining soil moisture, improving soil quality, lowering input costs and producing stable, high yields of crops leaves little doubt that it will be...
In this issue: Nanenane Agricultural show Appropriate technology ECHO EA seedbank updates Highlights Innovation News in brief ECHO RIC‟s Best Practices
Get practical advice on improving your farm and increasing your yields from East Africa's favourite farming show! There is no other program in East Africa that is research-based, agricultural and working with an array of private and development sector partners to get practical agricultural...
01/11/2017 While availability of food calories has paralleled human population growth in Rwanda, the supply of highly nutritious foods -such as complete protein, fats, and micronutrients -remain insufficient in the Rwandan diet. Past research has shown the barriers to Rwandans raising chickens to be a lack...
The inaugural AMCOMET Africa Hydromet Forum, which took place 12 – 15 September 2017 at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia brought together over 500 expertsfrom governments, academia, NGOs, UN agencies, development partners and private sector and over 30 high level...
The presentation will be based on findings of an ex-post evaluation of 10 years of Christian Care’sConservation Agriculture (CA) programming which started in 2006 and ended in 2014 in five districtsof Zimbabwe with funding from the United Church of Canada and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB)....
Abstract - International Journal of Botany, 2010 Vegetative propagation techniques are increasingly being applied to the domestication of tropical tree species as a means of producing planting stock and capturing genetic variation. However, the level of knowledge of cost-effective for vegetative...