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ECHO Latin America and Caribbean Notes is an electronic technical bulletin containing articles of interest to farmers and Development in the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The goal is to provide you with information that directly impacts your practices. We appreciate your comments...
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2017/04/11 Through many mistakes and trials, Sarah Hornsby, and husband Jim, learned much of the practical use of medicinal plants from their experience in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The reforestation project started with the purchase of land in the Arenal Forest Reserve. From there, the learning process began...
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Mission co-worker Mark Hare talks about the impact that seeds -- provided in part by the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance -- have had in Haiti's recovery. The program is about "providing seeds as a way for Haitians to be Haitians" and "providing people options so...
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Note the Food Composition Table under the Services drop-down. The early research work of the Central American region and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) in nutrition was focused initially (1950 and 1960) on the clinical manifestation and the treatment of the...
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Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics Neotropikey is an international project based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, developing identification and information resources for the flowering plants of the Neotropical region (tropical South and Central...
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CATIE's Orthodox Seed Germplasm Bank was established in July 1976 as a strategy to face the growing loss of diversity of some of the most important crops in the Mesoamerican region. One of the main tasks of the bank is to locate, collect, conserve, characterize and distribute the germplasm...
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TheInternational Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)was formed During the III Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP III) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November 1996. The IIFB is a collection of representatives from indigenous governments, indigenous...
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2017/07/25 The tropical forest is constantly self-mulching. After a walk in the woods I usually return with bits of leaves and twigs caught in my hair. Lying in bed at night, my partner and I often hear branches and even whole trees tumbling toward the great soil food web below. This self-mulching is one...
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2017/07/31 Las Cañadas Agro-ecological Chickens Module Introducing New Team Leader: Cecilia Gonzalez Tech Note Spotlight: "Cafeteria Feeding" of Chickens From ECHO's Seed Bank: Ethiopian Kale Member Highlight: Javier Ignacio Silva Rivera Our Vision:Honoring God by Empowering the Undernourished with...
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Alianza de Servicios de Información or Alliance of Information Services (SIDALC) facilitates access to information produced in the Americas. This information is housed and organized in agricultural institutions, their libraries and other centers of related information. It makes available over 3.1...