1. Access Agriculture Training Video A traditional Central American practice is to bend over the maize stalk to help dry the maize and to protect it from disease and pest damage. If you do this at just the right time, you will harvest more. Maize grains keep growing until a black spot appears at the...
  2. Cedicam's work supports the subsistence agriculture farmer population, reducing migration, promoting food security, food sovereignty and sustainable farming practices. In 2002, four communities working with Cedicam received an honorable mention from the Mexican Federal Government for their...
  3. Sustainable Harvest International was built on the fact thatenvironmental degradation and rural poverty are unavoidably linked. That’s why the solution must also be linked. Since 1997, we have provided local, long-term technical assistance and training to rural farming families inCentral America....
  4. Access Agriculture Training Video The economic analysis allows farmers to know how much money they earn or how much they will lose by changing from one technology to another, or from one practice to another. This helps them make a decision for the following year as to which practice they want to...
  5. For those of you working to rebuild agriculture in hurricane-ravaged Caribbean and Central American communities, we’ve assembled somefree agroforestry training materialsthat will immensely benefit you: How to plant windbreaks to stop and slow heavy winds How to build contours to stop erosion How...
  6. The tree spinach (Cnidoscolus chayamansaMcVaughn, Euphorbiaceae), called "chaya" in south Texas, is popular in Mexico and Central America and has been introduced into the United States (mainly South Texas and Florida) for potential uses as a leafy vegetable and/or as a medicinal plant. The plant...
  7. 2018/01/25 Business Serves... Employees, Customers, Community WHY To encourage, equip, and connect job creators in Haiti for the purpose of increasing employment and eradicating poverty. WHO Top Haitian business owners—both large and small, prominent NGOs,, poverty- fighers, and many more gather for a day...
  8. The DIRECTORY was first compiled in September 1988. It is updated regularly, as we become aware of new publications. Most of the tables are not held by the INFOODS Secretariat, and many are out of print. However, numbers of copies are held in libraries around the world and can often be obtained...
  9. Nutritional composition studies that assess similarities and differences of levels of important nutrients and anti-nutrients are an essential part of the safety assessment of new crop varieties that are used as food and feed. Managed by theILSI Research Foundation, the ILSI Crop Composition...
  10. This directory is sponsored by the Steering Committee of the National Nutrient Databank Conference (NNDC) and has been designed by the volunteer members of the Databank Directory Committee.