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  1. Best Practices in Improving Degraded Land

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    2012-11-14 The UNCCD estimates that over 250 million people are affected by land degradation, and about 1 billion people in over 100 countries are at risk. According to the WMO, 33% of the world’s land surface is vulnerable to land degradation.Degraded lands lead to overall reduced productivity and reduced...
    Soil Management Soil improvemnt Saline Soils Land Degradation
     

  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...
    Climate Change
     

  3. Selecting Legumes as Green Manure/Cover Crops

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    2017-05-26 By integrating legumes into cropping systems, small-scale farmers in low-resource settings can invest in the long-term health and resilience of their soils. Success or failure depends largely on choosing the right legume(s). With that in mind, this document presents insights on legume selection...
    Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Green Manures and ... Cover Crops Legume Legumes Tropical legumes Lablab Mucuna Intercropping
     

  4. ECHO Community Garden Toolkit

    Key Resource The purpose of this resource is to suggest several key considerations for beginning a small garden project. This information is meant to be a guideline to better assist you in the organization and implementation of particular elements crucial to making a garden project successful. While each...
    Community Gardens Institutional Agri... Institutional Agri...
     

  5. ECHO Asia Seed Catalog 2024/2025

    Key Resource 2023-10-11 Seeds are a strategic starting point for any agricultural development program or project, and good seeds are undoubtedly one of the most essential material inputs for farmers, both men and women. In some farming communities and families, seeds are the most significant predictor of productivity....
    Seed Seed Bank Neglected & Underu... open pollinated Asia Asia
     

  6. Systems that Utilize GMCCs

     

  7. Poster - Legume Selection

    2017-11-01 By integrating legumes intoc ropping systems, small-scale farmers in low-resource settings can invest in the long-term health and resilience of their soils. Success or failure depends largely on choosing the right legume(s). Selection or screening trials are use ful experiments that direct...
    Legume
     

  8. Conservation Agriculture in East Africa

    2013-07-01 Conservation agriculture (CA) has been promoted in East Africa through a number of initiatives over the past half year. In this article, we share what ECHO has gleaned from regional partners, in hopes that you can expand upon these successes and also promote further sharing on ECHO’s website....
    Conservation Agric... East Africa
     

  9. EAN Issue #1

    2013-07-01 Conservation Agriculture in East Africa: An Update What’s happening on ECHOcommunity.org? Telfairia pedata: Oyster Nut, Kweme or Zanzibar Oil Vine
    East Africa
     

  10. Telfairia pedata

    2013-07-01 Telfairia pedata is a perennial climbing plant grown throughout eastern and central Africa, though it is native only to Tanzania and northern Mozambique. (A similar species, Telfairia occidentalis, is grown in West Africa.) It is grown for its large (4 cm in diameter) seeds, which resemble...