ECHO International Agriculture Conference Presentations

2021

Virtual Conference

2021 Videos - ECHO International Agriculture Conference

The 2021 International Agriculture Conference continued the tradition of featuring leading voices in various aspects of agricultural development—practitioners, scientists, and community leaders. Content was presented in plenary and concurrent breakout sessions, with ample opportunities to network with each other, as past participants have come to know and expect.

The differences: No visa required, no travel, no hotel! Lower cost, more people, more perspectives! Attendees can also host or attend viewing parties with other delegates with similar interests or working in common regions or locations.

Conference 2021 took place in a single day, in a seven-hour period, instead of being spread out over the course of three days.

- World-class keynote speakers
- Interactive breakout sessions
- Networking and interaction with speakers and other delegates

Lightning talks are 2-5 minute subject-specific videos that illustrate how practitioners around the world are implementing techniques and principles based on our four themes.

Breakout Sessions are recordings of the live discussions with the Plenary speakers and with network members representing related topic areas. Some of these created Lightning Talks, as well.

Conservation Agriculture Adoption in Kenya: Lessons from the field and a network

Session: Stephan will present the importance of community involvement and participation for better and faster conservation agriculture adoption and learning. Gathering his experiences, even during the Covid pandemic, he will update the challenges and opportunities of a CA network. Stephan has had...

Postharvest Management to Ensure Food Security and the Critical Role of Capacity Building

Session: Several regional and international organizations have quoted that the food losses are significant and evident in all parts of the world and at all stages of food supply chain. Depending upon the commodity and the handling practices followed, sometimes the losses can be more than 50% of...

Integrating Gender into Livestock Systems - Why Should I Care?

Session: This talk will be a brief overview of why and how to consider gender issues if you are working in smallholder livestock systems. We will also discuss some strategies you can use to do this, using multiple country examples from the USAID Livestock Systems Innovation Lab and other...

Lightning Talk - Grafting: Cleft Graft

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Melissa Hall

Lightning Talk - Corn Seed Sprouting

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Rocheteau Dareus

Lightning Talk - Scientific Animations Without Boarders

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: SAWBO

Breakout Session - Promoting Innovations Via Proverbs & Songs

Session: In this Breakout Session, Pete describes ways to introduce and promote innovations by using oral arts, such as proverbs, and songs. Songs, proverbs, chants, etc. are great ways to help introduce, promote, and remember new ideas. He will show ways to involve and encourage teams in ways to...

Improving Nutrition and Income with Wild Gardens

Session: Underexploited wild food plants have a high potential to contribute to nutritional and/or medicinal healthy while generating income and sustaining the environment. Grouping of these species, whether occurring naturally or by design, become low maintenance, naturalized 'Wild Gardens.' By...

5 Guidelines for Restoring Tree Cover

Session: Urgent issues require clear, proven solutions. Join agroforestry expert John Leary as he discusses five tangible steps to achieving long-term, sustainable farmland and landscape restoration. Leary has been working with rural farming communities in some of the most degraded regions of the...

Lightning Talk - Stingless Bees

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Daudi

Lightning Talk - Integrating Landscape Thinking

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Brian Cohen

Comparative Acceptance, Adoption, and Impact of Introduced Fruit Species

Session: A look at community farmer preferences as compared to plantation popularity and usages of fruit species that are new to the region. (Central America). Example cases that include: cacao, rambutan, mamey zapote, ambarella, jackfruit, sapodilla, breadfruit, durian, mangosteen, Achachairu,...

Breakout Session - Meet the Speaker: John Leary

Session: During this Breakout Session, you will have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions of John Leary's Plenary Talk: "Top 5 Restoration Guidelines for Practitioners". Presenter: John Leary

Growing Mangos in Madagascar to Get on a Path Out of Poverty

Session: This session will describe how growing selected mango varieties are starting to contribute to poverty reduction in Madagascar. It will describe the efforts of the largest protestant denomination in Madagascar to spread mango varieties and grafting techniques through structures of the...

Chickens and Change: Piloting a Smallholder Broiler Production Program in Rwanda

Session: This session will feature findings and impacts from a public-private partnership that has trained and equipped smallholders in rural northern Rwanda in modern broiler chicken production. The session will highlight the importance of adopting livelihood approaches that increase incomes and...

Lightning Talk - Planning for Success

Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Elliot Powell

2020

Virtual Conference

2020 Videos - ECHO International Agriculture Conference

The 2020 International Agriculture Conference continued the tradition of featuring leading voices in various aspects of agricultural development—practitioners, scientists, and community leaders. Content was presented in plenary and concurrent breakout sessions, with ample opportunities to network with each other, as past participants have come to know and expect.

Conference 2020 took place in a single day, in a seven-hour period, instead of being spread out over the course of three days.

- World-class keynote speakers
- Interactive breakout sessions
- Networking and interaction with speakers and other delegates

Lightning talks are 2-5 minute subject-specific videos that illustrate how practitioners around the world are implementing techniques and principles based on our four themes.

Breakout Sessions are recordings of the live discussions with the Plenary speakers and with network members representing related topic areas. Some of these created Lightning Talks, as well.

2020 ECHO International Agriculture Conference

This year ECHO held its 27th Annual Conference--but with a twist. Like many events, meetings, and occasions this year, the ECHO conference took place online. This meant the loss of the excellent face-to-face networking that has always been a hallmark of past conferences; however, a major...