- 2016-11-21 Greetings ECHO East African Members and Networks!!!!. We have the pleasure to inform you that an ECHO East Africa biogas summit entitled“Biogas summit" will take place at the Naura Springs Hotel in Arusha Tanzania from 21st-22nd November 2016 and followed by Co-design workshop on 24th – 25th...
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2016-08-02 Yohana Mcha, headmistress of Orkolili Secondary school is an innovator who received a Pico grant in 2015 from ECHO through the IDIN program. She attended an innovation summit organized in Arusha in August 2014 at which she learned of the challenge she wanted to solve in her area: a way to store...
- 2016-10-09 Transdisciplinary • Participatory • Action-Oriented • Systems-Based This course is designed for professional researchers, inspired practitioners, graduate students, extension agents and others.Prior Permaculture Design Course is recommended. Topics include: History and state of permaculture...
- 2016-11-06 REAP and anamed regularly conduct seminars in Kenya, in particular in Nairobi and western Kenya. Those attending have come not only from Kenya, but from many countries in the region and even further afield. As a result of these seminars, the distribution of artemisia starter kits and the work of...
- 2016-12-06 This Creation Care & Farming God's Way conference is the last one we will be holding this year (2016). Here are the details: Location & Venue: Care of Creation Kenya, Kijabe, Kenya (located within the Moffat Bible College). Arrival and registration: 11am - 12 noon, Tuesday, 6th December...
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ECHO East Africa Symposium II on Best Practices in Highland Areas Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 1st - 3rd November, 2016
- Also available in:
- Español (es)
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2016-11-01 The roles of restoration projects as among best practices contributing to sustainable agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands Ecosystems. He will. speak on how species diversity of the area together with the associated ethnobotanical knowledge contributes to conservation agriculture in the...
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2016-11-01 Send a Cow works with smallholder highland farmers helping them to improve their farming system by promoting sustainable organic agriculture with improved backyard farming alongside gender and social development activities. Our low input, holistic approach builds resilience by empowering farmers,...
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2016-11-01 On average, crop yields under DER+ and TER+ increased by 30% and 16%, respectively, as compared to CT. Our study demonstrates that field water conservation tillage practices that incorporate CA principles are effectively increasing green water in the root zone available for crops. RCA systems...
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2016-11-01 Traditional natural resources management in Ethiopia has been unsustainable, owing to various reasons including poverty and lack of knowledge, which has resulted in rampant deforestation. Historical estimates suggest that approximately 40% of Ethiopian landmass was once covered with forest and...