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ECHOcommunity is a membership community that provides access to nearly all of ECHO’s resources online, as well as communications tools to help development workers connect with each other.   View a list of ECHOcommunity.org features here.

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Upcoming events

ECHO North America: Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development - January 2025
Mon, 20 January 2025 » Fri, 24 January 2025

ECHO North America, United States

Those interested in preparing for short to long-term involvement in international agriculture development are encouraged to participate in this five-day course.  Topics and discussions will focus on improved food security and agricultural livelihoods for small-scale farmers in developing countries.  Participants will be introduced to the complexities related to poverty and community development.  They will also be introduced to principles and practices that contribute toward maintaining healt...

ECHO Asia: Tropical Agriculture & Development (TAD) Course
Mon, 3 February 2025 » Sat, 8 February 2025

Chiang Mai, Thailand

This 1-week course is designed for development workers, missionaries, and volunteers looking to engage their communities with low-cost, high-impact agricultural innovations and techniques. Participants will be introduced to various agricultural practices and technologies through classroom time and hands-on activities on the farm, learning to 'use what you have to make what you need.' This course is considered an 'introductory survey course' and will present a broad overview of many options...

TOT with Global CHE Network (Feb)
Mon, 24 February 2025 » Fri, 28 February 2025

ECHO North America, United States

  Those interested in preparing for short/long-term involvement in community and agricultural development internationally are encouraged to participate in this five-day (35 hours) training course. Course participants will gain an introduction to aspects of poverty and community development and an orientation to ECHO. They will also receive instruction on proven community development, including agricultural principles/practices and practical techniques, systems and technologies to meet ...

Biochar Academy: Thailand hosted by ECHO Asia + IBI (International Biochar Initiative)
Mon, 24 February 2025 » Sat, 1 March 2025

ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand

  Visit IBI's Biochar Academy: Thailand webpage for more information!   Participants will: Hear from biochar experts to gain insight into the current and future state of biochar research, commercial activity, and opportunities Become equipped with essential knowledge for training others in biochar fundamentals Make biochar using low-tech methods and identify a wide variety of applications for biochar Discuss the relationship between biochar and climate change mitigation ...

The 8th ECHO East Africa Biennial Symposium in collaboration with Hope International Burundi
Tue, 25 February 2025 » Thu, 27 February 2025

King's Conference Center (KCC), Burundi

We are soliciting potential presenters  and attendees for the 8th ECHO East Africa Biennial Symposium in collaboration with Hope International Burundi, to be held in Bujumbura from the 25th - 27th February, 2025, a three day sharing event to be held at the King's Conference Center (KCC)  in Bujumbura, Burundi. The event will draw participants from all across East Africa to address issues of sustainable agriculture and appropriate technologies. We prefer presentations with practical informatio...

Latest Resources

Tillers International

Tillers International is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that leads in teaching essential homesteading skills. Our offerings include toolmaking, timber framing, woodworking, coopering, and blacksmithing. We nurture leade...

Manual De Piscicultura en El Centro Del Africa Oriental

En la mayoría de los países africanos no se ha reconocido cabalmente la importancia de la piscicultura y no se han dedicado esfuerzos a fomentarla, debido principalmente a la falta de organizaciones pesquerras y a la escasez...

Produccion de tilapia en fincas integradas: utilizando insumos de bajo costo Tilapia production as part of an integrated farm, practical instruction, step by step from site selection through water quality through raising to marketing

El propósito de este manual es proveer información sobre el cultivo de tilapia con insumos de bajo costo para los productores y productoras de las áreas rurales de Centroamérica.  Hemos incluido temas de importancia como la ...

Lombricultura Taller de capacitacion tearico-practico en establecimiento reproduccion y manejo de la lombriz roja californiana esenia foetida

La lombriz de la tierra es undo de los muchos habitants naturales del suelo que son insidpensables. Su importancia y uso en la Agricultura es conocida desde la antiguedad, desde antes de Cristo.

Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil

As the crucible of life, the source and final resting place of everything that grows, soil inspires reverence not only in the peasant who derives his daily bread from it, but also in the scientist who contemplates its meanin...

Central America & Caribbean

Pesticide misuse among small Andean farmers stems from pervasive misinformation by retailers

Struelens QF, Rivera M, Alem Zabalaga M, Ccanto R, Quispe Tarqui R, Mina D, et al. (2022) Pesticide misuse among small Andean farmers stems from pervasive misinformation by retailers. PLOS Sustain Transform 1(6): e0000017. h...

Seeds for a Future

From the beginning, Seeds for a Future has prioritized creating a Program that’s replicable.

We’re sharing many of our resources with you to demonstrate how the Program is working for its participants and for other...

PERU-Hub

PERU-Hub is an alliance of North American universities and national and international research centers led by Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), united with the purpose of building a Hub based on the utilization...

Nutritional composition of tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) from the Cerrado of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lab. Vitam. Anal., Nutr. Health Dep., Fed. Univ. Viçosa, PH Rolfs Avenue, Viçosa, 36571-000, Minas Gerais, Brazil,

The Cerrado is a Brazilian biome that has a large plant heterogeneity. Among the fruit species of t...

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