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Conference Presentations Now Available! 2025-06-03

ECHO International Agriculture Conference 2024 was a rich time of learning and discussion about important topics that affect small-scale farmers around the world! We are excited to share that the presentations are now available for you to view and share. Some presentations you may enjoy include:

  • Smallholder management of fall armyworm
  • Best practices in promoting livestock among the poor
  • Can innovation end poverty? 

View EIAC 2024 Presentations

 

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Upcoming events

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...

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 ...

Latest Resources

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.

Seed Sources

Book Key Resources - Seed Sources & Germplasm

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 ...