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  1. Institutional Agricultural Design

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    2014/04/01 ECHO frequently receives questions from members of our network, asking how available land could be used to grow food and/or create income to augment an otherwise non-agricultural project. Broadly speaking, they are asking how to begin an institutional agriculture project—a coordinated agriculture...
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  2. Agriculture in Times of Climate Change

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    2013/04/16 Smallholder farmers and agricultural development workers are reporting changes in climate. For example, during the 2012 ECHO Agricultural Workshop in Asia, 63 attendees representing at least 25 agriculture and community development organizations from across Myanmar were polled about their...
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  3. Chaya

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    2006/01/01 Dr. Martin Price, co-founder of ECHO and former head of ECHO’s Agricultural Resources Department, has said, “I would consider chaya to be one of the five most important underutilized food plants ECHO distributes. I give it this rank because of its ability to thrive in both arid and rainy regions,...
    Chaya Cnidosculous chaya... Underutilized Crops
     

  4. Creating a Low-Cost Seed Dryer for Use in Local Seed Banks

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    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 31. Saving your own seeds can be a cost-effective way to access crop seed for future planting and to help maintain the planet’s plant biodiversity. Whether you plant your own saved seeds, give them away to friends and neighbors, or distribute them through...
    Seed Bank Seed Drying Seeds Asia
     

  5. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture @ Second Edition

    Key Resource 2009/04/01 Second Edition The first edition of Gaia's Garden, sparked the imagination of Americas home gardeners, introducing permacultures central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition...
    Permaculture Natural landscaping Organic gardening
     

  6. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol 1) Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

    Key Resource 2013/01/01 The award-winningRainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for...
    Water Harvesting Garden and landsca... Passive solar design Permaculture
     

  7. Permaculture Resources

    The word permaculture, coined by its co-founder Bill Mollison, is formed from the words “permanent” and “agriculture.” The concept of permaculture is difficult to explain in just a few words, because the term is used to describe (usually simultaneously) both a worldview/philosophy for living on...
     

  8. Book Key Resources - Permaculture

     

  9. Permaculture in Development

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #30 The word permaculture is mentioned with increasing frequency in speeches, books and magazine articles on sustainability and food security. What is permaculture? Is it a movement? A philosophy? Simply a set of design tools? In this article, I answer the...
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  10. La permaculture

    2016/09/27 La Permaculture (une contraction des mots "culture et permanente") intègre les personnes, l'eau, les plantes les sols, les paysages, les animaux, les micro-organismes, les structures, les systèmes de captage d'eau et l'énergie naturelle pour créer des écologies cultivées qui soient abondamment...
    Permaculture West Africa