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  1. 2020 ECHO Asia Intro to Soil Science

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    This 4 part training gives a broad overview and introduction to some basic soil characteristics: phases (solid, liquid, gas), texture, density, structure, reaction (pH), plant-water relationships, organic matter, biology and nutrients. After some classroom discussion we went head out to into the...
    Soil science Soil Profiles Soil Testing Plant Health Asia
     

  2. Economics of Tropical Agriculture

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    Small-scale farming is a surprisingly complex enterprise with multiple areas of risk that also present opportunities for impact. -- David Erickson, CEO, ECHO "Small farmers produce much of the developing world's food. Yet they are generally much poorer than the rest of the population in these...
    Economics
     

  3. SAWBO - Scientific Animations Without Borders

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    Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is a university based program. SAWBO transforms extension information on relevant topics such as agriculture, disease and women's empowerment, into 2D, 2.5D and 3D animations, which are then voice overlaid into a diversity of languages from around the...
    SAWBO Training Digital Toolbox
     

  4. Access Agriculture - Training Videos

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    Welcome to Access Agriculture Access Agriculture is a non-profit organisation that showcases agricultural training videos in local languages. We promote the transition towards organic farming and agroecology across the global South. To impact on rural livelihoods, please explore Access...
    Digital Toolbox
     

  5. ECHO Recipes

    Key Resource ECHO Network Members, Staff, and Volunteers have collected a lot of recipes over the past 40 years, many of them featuring underutilized plants. We willorganize the recipes and provide cross-links to the relevant plant information here. If you have recipes you would like to archive here for the...
     

  6. TN #83 Agriculture Extension with Community-Level Workers: Lessons and Practices from Community Health and Community Animal Health Programs

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    2015-11-04 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Community Development CHW CAHW Community Health
     

  7. TN #87 Seed Drying Cabinet

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    2002-01-01 Seed storage is often a problem in the tropics. However, if seeds can be properly dried, they will remain viable for a longer period of time. The seed drying cabinet described here can help improve the viability of seeds in storage. What's Inside: Introduction Description Diagram Observations ...
    Appropriate Techno... Seed Seed Saving Seed Drying
     

  8. TN #28 Forages

    Key Resource 1993-04-01 If the small farm is to be a permanent source of food for its owners, it must be managed in a sound fashion that provides a constant source of nutrients, fuel, construction materials, etc. without damage to the land or its productive capacity. Forage crops are important to the small farm as one...
    Forage Forage Crop
     

  9. TN #82 SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less Can be More

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    2015-09-21 The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a method of raising rice that produces substantially higher yields with the planting of far fewer seedlings and the use of fewer inputs than either traditional methods (i.e., flooding) or more “modern” methods (using mineral fertilizer or...
    SRI System of Rice Int... SCI System of Crop Int...
     

  10. TN #67 Farmers' Seed Fairs

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    2011-01-01 Often farmers asked for seed, but we weren’t quite sure what to expect when we suggested—to the farmers’ union in Nampula, Mozambique—that they organize a fair in which the members could come together and exchange seed. They might only be interested in “improved” varieties. However, when we...
    Seed Fair Seeds