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ECHO Asia: Tropical Agriculture & Development (TAD) Course
Mon, 2 June 2025 » Sat, 7 June 2025
ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center Chiang Mai, Thailand, 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 op...
Encuentro en Guatemala 1 - Cobán, Alta Verapaz
Wed, 4 June 2025 » Wed, 4 June 2025
Oficinas de ASECSA, Guatemala
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al hambre...
Encuentro en Guatemala 2 – Ciudad de Guatemala
Tue, 10 June 2025 » Tue, 10 June 2025
Oficinas centrales de Casa del Alfarero, Guatemala
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al hambre...
Cultivating the Rain with Ecological Agriculture
Sat, 14 June 2025 » Sat, 14 June 2025
Online,
Online | June 14 You are invited to attend the free online Zoom Ecological Agriculture class, Cultivating the Rain with Ecological Agriculture on Saturday, June 14, 2025, 9:00-11:00 am (Hawaii Standard Time), 2-4 pm Central Time, 19:00-21:00 (UTC). The class will share methods that work with nature to conserve & collect water, heal the soil, increase production, and reduce labor & inputs. Participants will learn strategies and practices that they can apply on any scale in backya...
Encuentro Nacional - Nicaragua
Tue, 17 June 2025 » Wed, 18 June 2025
Rayo de Sol, Nicaragua
El presente año 2025 ECHO puso en marcha la implementación del Centro de Impacto Regional (CIR) para Centroamérica y el Caribe (CAC), para lo cual ya cuenta con una directora regional. ECHO fue fundada en 1973 en Haití, por lo que tiene profundas raíces en esta región, de manera que el lanzamiento de este CIR es una especie de regreso a casa con presencia física. El CIR CAC tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de una red diversa de actores en la región para hacer frente al ha...
Pandanus
African Okra
Abelmoschus caillei originated and is now grown mostly in West and Central Africa where it has become an important vegetable crop. This species of okra is particularly popular with subsistence farmers as it can produce a foo...
Chipilin
Chipilín (Crotalaria longirostrata) is native to southern Mexico and Central America. This species of Crotalaria is a popular food plant in countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador (Morton, 1994). It is probably the speci...
IPPC Plant Health Campus
The IPPC Plant Health Campus is your portal to e-learning courses, guides and technical information focused on key phytosanitary systems.
The content is aimed at national plant pr...
Edible seeds, leaves and flowers as Maya Super Foods: Function and composition
Cáceres A, Cruz SM. Edible seeds, leaves and flowers as Maya Super Foods: function and composition. Int J Phytocos Nat Ingred. 2019;6:2.
Abstract Mesoamerica is a megadiverse region where one of the Vavilov ce...
Bloom Books
Bloom makes it easy to create simple books and translate them into multiple languages. It also has an online crowd-sourced library of books that you can download and translate.
Bloom Videos explain the why and how ...
Contour Bunds
Field guide to common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa
2019 3rd edition : 480 pages
East Africa boasts a tremendous natural wealth of flora – indigenous, naturalized and exotic. This field guide features some 600 of the trees, shrubs, palms and mangroves commonly found...
VSF Suisse
Around the world, 500 million people living in poverty depend on livestock farming for their livelihoods. If the animals are not well, the livelihoods and lives of these people are at risk. Healthy animals, on the other hand...
Food for the Hungry International
In FHIF, the final fruit of our work is a sustainable, healthy community that can keep growing itself. We call this "Vision of Community" (VOC). It must be the community's dream, not ours.
A key question for ever...