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ECHO Webinar Series
Wed, 3 September 2025 » Sat, 22 November 2025
Online,
This series aims to serve the working group that ECHO and network members in Central Africa have joined to advance sustainable agriculture and agroecosystem strategies for smallholder farmers in practical ways. All are welcome to attend sessions that are pertinent to your work. Topics of the series include: Erosion and Flood Management Soil Pollution Land Conflicts, Transhumance, and Rural Infrastructure Climate Change Beekeeping (Apiculture) Aquaculture (Pisciculture) Appro...
ECHO® International Agriculture Conference - 2025
Tue, 11 November 2025 » Thu, 13 November 2025
ECHO Global Farm and Crowne Plaza Fort Myers Gulf Coast Hotel, Ft. Myers, USA , USA
Visit The Conference Website Welcome to the 32nd annual ECHO International Agriculture Conference! This event brings together industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and educators dedicated to eradicating hunger and improving lives through agriculture and community development. Our plenary, breakout, and workshop sessions offer valuable opportunities for learning and collaboration. Attendees will have the chance to hear from speakers who share their agricultural chal...
Farming God's Way
Tue, 20 January 2026 » Sat, 24 January 2026
ECHO North America, United States
Farming God's Way is an amazing solution to the food security and poverty crisis facing agricultural communities, using well-integrated biblical, management and technical keys to help break the yokes of physical and spiritual poverty among the poor. Farming God's Way is rooted in a deep, heartfelt consideration for the poor, based on our founding scripture, Isaiah 58. January 26-30 is an Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development Training. If you would l...
Faith and Farming - ECHO West Africa
Tue, 20 January 2026 » Fri, 23 January 2026
Cardinal Paul Zoungrana National Center, Burkina Faso
Farming is often perceived as a dirty, lowly, and undesirable job. The Faith and Farming programme seeks to encourage farmers by highlighting and learning from the many farmers in scripture. We learn about farming through our own experiences and by talking to farmers, so that we can provide helpful resources to encourage and bless them. Workshop participants will be introduced to farmers and farming in scripture and will explore how their faith can influence their farming practices. View...
Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development - January 2026
Mon, 26 January 2026 » Fri, 30 January 2026
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...
Johnson Su Bioreactor Compost Results! Successes And Challenges!
Country Living Experience: A Homesteading Journey, 2023
This video reveals the one-year results of a Johnson-Su bioreactor compost experiment. The presenter details successes and challenges, including maintaining m...
Johnson Su Bioreactor
David & Hui-Chun Johnson. 2016
A No-Turn Composting System that produces a SUPERIOR, microbially-diverse and fungal-dominant compost. This compost can be used to restore biological functionality to soils from s...
Johnson-Su Bioreactor
David Johnson is a molecular biologist conducting research as Research Scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural Research at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM and an Adjunct Professor at the Center fo...
How to Get Great Compost? Just Build A Johnson-Su Bioreactor!!
The Johnson-Su Bioreactor method of creating compost is quite different from other composting methods in several respects. The most common commercial windrow composting processes are usually designed and operated for speed a...
Silicon (Si): Review and future prospects on the action mechanisms in alleviating biotic and abiotic stresses in plants
Hassan Etesami, Byoung Ryong Jeong, Silicon (Si): Review and future prospects on the action mechanisms in alleviating biotic and abiotic stresses in plants, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Volume 147, 2018, Pages 881...
Florida Invasive Species Council
The mission of the Florida Invasive Species Council is to reduce the impacts of invasive plants in Florida through the exchange of scientific, educational, and technical information.
Seed Library Network
Seed libraries are as diverse as the communities they serve. There is no right way to do it. It can be a small box of seeds or an entire network of seed libraries with inter-library loans and everything in-between. Before s...
Tomato Storage and Preservation
Webinar series about Community-Led MEAL
Salanga has been partnering with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and ADRA Canada to innovate on Community-Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (CoLMEAL). We have been piloting this approach in countries in Afr...
Causal Pathways
Causal Pathways seeks to help philanthropy and other funders open-up the black box of strategy and systems change by building awareness, will, and skills to use evaluation approaches that can make sense of causal relationshi...