Let Worms Do Your Dirty Work: Learn How at our FREE Webinar! 2025-06-10
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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...
Vermicomposting 101: Building Fertility from the Ground Up
Wed, 25 June 2025 » Wed, 25 June 2025
Online,
Let Worms Do Your Dirty Work: Learn How at our FREE Webinar! Join us for an interactive webinar with Seth Phillips, Livestock Specialist at ECHO Global Farm's North America Regional Impact Center. During this webinar, you will learn the fundamentals of vermicomposting -- a low-cost, high-impact way to build healthy soil. In this session, you'll learn: How to set up and manage a worm bin Tips for feeding and maintaining a healthy worm population How to harvest worm castings ...
ECHO North America: July 2025 Bundle & Save TAD I & TAD II
Mon, 7 July 2025 » Fri, 18 July 2025
ECHO North America, United States
July 2025, ECHO North America will be hosting back-to-back trainings for TAD I and TAD II! Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development (TAD I) will be July 7-11! For more details that relate specifically to this training please use this link for more information. TAD II: Syntropic Agroforestry will be July 15-18! For more details that relate specifically to this training please use this link for more information. You can Register for BOTH events for a reduced cost per train...
ECHO North America: Introduction to Tropical Agriculture Development - July 2025
Mon, 7 July 2025 » Fri, 11 July 2025
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 h...
ECHO North America: TAD II - Syntropic Agroforestry July 2025
Tue, 15 July 2025 » Fri, 18 July 2025
ECHO North America, United States
Introduction to Syntropic Agriculture This is an interactive 4-day agroforestry training session. Learn how to cultivate abundant food and timber in a system that mimics a natural forest. Syntropic farming is a method inspired by Ernst Götsch. This course will cover the principles and practices needed for a beginner to plant his/her own agroforest. Basic design and management skills will also be taught. An attendee can expect to return home with enough knowledge to produce a couple ...
Global Names Verifier
Learn how to use GNverifier with OpenRefine
Verify a list of scientific names against biodiversity data-sources. This service parses incoming names, executes exact or fuzzy matching as required, and returns the bes...
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Welcome to ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System! Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. We are a partnership of U.S., Canad...
Tropical Greenhouse Production of Vegetables
Acedo AL Jr, Buntong B. 2021. Tropical Greenhouse Production of Vegetables. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Abt Associates, USAID, Feed the Future Cambodia Harvest II. 116p.
Greenhouse crop production is a climate-smart inno...
HarvestPlus
Center for Plant Conservation
A Brain Trust For Protecting Plants
CPC is a network of over 70 plant institutions that brings together data, scientific prowess, and applied conservation experience to advance work that saves plants. This brain trust of ...
Farming Systems Comparison in the Tropics
The project "Farming Systems Comparison in the Tropics" (SysCom), implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), aims to establish a scientific basis for discussions on the performance and potential of ...
Farming Systems in the Tropics
The natural, economic, and socio-institutional conditions of agricultural production vary widely from place to place and over periods of time. In the process of adapting cropping patterns and farming practices to the conditi...
HarvestStat Africa – Harmonized Subnational Crop Statistics for Sub-Saharan Africa
Lee, Donghoon & Anderson, Weston & Chen, Xuan & Davenport, Frank & Shukla, Shraddhanand & Sahajpal, Ritvik & Budde, Michael & Rowland, J. & Verdin, Jim & You, Liangzhi & Ahouangbenon, ...
Biochar-Based Fertilizers: Advancements, Applications, and Future Directions in Sustainable Agriculture—A Review
Luo, P.; Zhang, W.; Xiao, D.; Hu, J.; Li, N.; Yang, J. Biochar-Based Fertilizers: Advancements, Applications, and Future Directions in Sustainable Agriculture—A Review. Agronomy 2025, 15, 1104. https://doi.org/10.3390/agrono...
Seeds
Seeds is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on seed science and technology published quarterly online by MDPI.