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02/03/2016 Session: The FAOs Pastoralist Hub and FAO experiences on radio communication / extension in pastoral areas have overcome common extension hurdles. Come to hear about it. Biographical data: Badi Besbes has worked with FAO-Kenya livestock sector. Pastoralist Knowledge Hub
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03/03/2016 Session: Tim will give a personal account of his experience with Lewa & the Ngare Ndare forest for over half a century. This will entail the transition from farming in conflict with wildlife to settled coexistence and optimizing the use of the existing ecosystem. Biographical data: Tim...
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This center was developed to provideECHO services to help those in East Africa who work with the poormore effectively,especially in agriculture and alternative methods. ECHO East Africa is a basic training centerprovidingtechnical assistanceto help organizations and community development workers...
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- 01/11/2016 We have the pleasure to inform you that an ECHO East Africa Highlands Symposium II entitled "Best practices of sustainable agriculture and livestock in highlands"will take place at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa from 1st-3rd November 2016. SCHOLARSHIPS TWELVE...
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Key Resource Sustainable Agriculture covers a wide range of topics: soil and water conservation, using organic matter to sustain soil fertility, pest management, cropping systems, livestock management, and many others. For agriculture to be sustainable, it must take into account not only the physical...
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24/05/2016 Travis Silveus is a Peace Corps Volunteer who is extending for his 3rd year in Tanzania by working with ECHO East Africa. He did his two year work in Kijunguvillage, Kiteto, Manyara Region, and here he shares some honest experiences of that time. "In my village, deforestation is a problem. If a...
- 07/08/2018 Greetings!You are cordially invited to join us for this important symposium jointly organized by World Vision Tanzania,ECHO East Africa,and Amaranth Institute. We hope that you will make time to gather with us at this very important event, a valuable time of learning, information sharing and...
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28/06/2016 "Agriculture is important to me because if I can share what I know about farming with my village, maybe they will learn from me and our lives will be better. At ECHO demonstration gardens, we learned what vegetables grow well with little water in case there is a drought, and we learned new and...
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11/07/2016 Recently, ECHO East Africa Regional Impact Center Director Erwin Kinsey and Technical Research Coordinator Bob Hargrave received a request from an ECHO network member to identify and propose control methods for a “new weed that is spreading and smothering trees and hedges.”
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