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At the center of our work is ECHO Development Notes (EDN), which we send quarterly to thousands of people in over 160 countries in three languages (English, French, and Spanish). In EDN we share the most helpful, practical information that we come across about growing food under difficult circumstances. 

Within each issue you'll find featured techniques, practices, information and experience to help guide your work in tropical and subtropical agricultural development. Also in EDN are "Echoes from Our Network," "From ECHO's Seed Bank," and more. Issues #1-51 were compiled in the 1990s into the Amaranth to Zai Holes book, which  or you may read it online here. Also, Agricultural Options for Small Scale Farmers, expanded on the foundation from Amaranth to Zai Holes by covering EDN 52 through 100, with articles from outside contributors. Agricultural Options for Small Scale Farmers is available for purchase from the ECHO Bookstore and Amazon.

If you would like to browse EDNs via our Index, please click here.

175 Issues in this Publication (Showing issues 46 - 37) |

EDN Issue #46 - 1994-10-19

A Caution About One Use of The Bird Resistant Grain Sorghum

Nematodes in Agroforestry

Control of Leaf-Cutter Ants

Use of Legume Cover Crops in Orchards or Plantations

Echos From our Network

Quinoa, Chenopodium Quinoa, The Incan "Mother Grain."

EDN Issue #45 - 1994-07-19

Go Easy With Fertilizer After Transplanting Trees and Shrubs.

Removing Salts From Container Grown Plants

Moringa and Carotene

What About Rhizobia Inoculants?

Tomatoes Resist Flooding if Grafted To Eggplant.

A Method For Keeping Rats Away From Oil Palms

 

EDN Issue #44 - 1994-04-19

More About the Uberlandia Carrot That Sets Seed in the Tropics

Fruit Fly Trap Made From Basil

Suggestions to Help Agroforesters Reduce Seedling Losses From Termites

Appropriate Technology Juice Pasteurizer

 

EDN Issue #43 - 1993-12-19

New Data on Moringa Seed to Purify Water

Success With Velvet Bean in the Republic of Benin

A New Rearing Method for Cochineal Insects

A New Idea for an Emergency Milk Substitute in West Africa

Seed Available for a Carrot That Will Set Seed in the Tropics

EDN Issue #42 - 1993-10-19

An Annual Agricultural Missions Conference to be Started by ECHO

Moringa Leaves to Prevent Damping Off Disease of Seedlings

Iron Sulfate Molluscicide

Marama Beans

Home Made Mosquito Repellent From Neem

A Simple Way To Improve Starchy "Weaning Foods"

Beekeeping & Development, An "Edn" For Beekeepers

Seed For Psyllid Resistant Leucaena Tree

Echos From Our Network

Use Of Trees By Livestock, (A Series)

 

EDN Issue #41 - 1993-07-19

Book Reviews

Echos From our Network

For Your Interest Only

Bunchy Top on Papaya

Before You Get Excited About Spice Production, Consider This

Figure 1. Design for the Rus pump, courtesy of World Vision Australia and Rus Alit

Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes

Update on Nuñas (Popping Beans)

The Rus Pump

EDN Issue #40 - 1993-03-19

The Small Farm Resource Development Project

More On Neem To Control Scabies

When Honeybees Become Drunk

Honey As A Dressing For Wounds

'Alfagraze,' A Forage Alfalfa

Drought­tolerant, Early­maturing, Good­yielding 'Crimson' Lentil

Echos From Our Network

 

EDN Issue #39 - 1993-01-01

Echo's From Our Network

ECHO Gives a Hand to Russia

Grass Mulch an Innovative Way of Gardening in the Dry Tropics

Are Raw Vegetables More Nutritious Than Cooked One?

Can Citrus Residue Be Used for Animal Feed?Onions in the Tropics and Subtropics

 

EDN Issue #38 - 1992-07-19

Book Reviews

Pigeon Pea and Chickpea Release Phosphates

Living Support Poles for Yams (Diascorea spp)

Toxicity and Food Security: A review of health effects of cyanide exposure from cassava and of ways to prevent these effects

Storing Cooked Eggs

Nutritive Value of Nuñas (Popping Beans)

EDN Issue #37 - 1992-06-19

Cashew Growing Observations

Cashew Fruit Drying in Honduras

Training in Infrastructure for Developing Countries

When You Send Seed to ECHO

Cooking Oil Spray for Home Gardens

Short Term Heating Kills Cowpea Weevils

Effectiveness of a Moringa Oleifera Seed Extract in Treating a Skin Infection

Squash Catsup?

How Can I Get My Own Seed Import Permit?

Recipes for Velvet Beans -- and a Caution!