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  1. EDN Issue #24

    1988-12-19 Book Review: Rooftop Or Shallow-Bed Gardening Reaction To Bee Stings More On Making Your Own Biological Control For Cassava Hornworm Can Peach Pits Be Used As Food? Crop Production Bulletin #2, Soybeans Is Velvet Bean Safe To Eat?
     

  2. Good Gardening and Root Crops in Uganda

    2016-11-20 This book is designed as a simple introduction to good gardening and root crops in Uganda. It is hoped people will take greater pride and interest in these plants and become confident and informed about how to grow and use them. Many of the local food plants that occur in every country are very...
    East Africa
     

  3. For How Long Should Chaya Leaves be Boiled?

    2018-10-17 Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) or tree spinach is a nutritious, fast growing perennial shrub (TN 53). It is one of many food plants that contain cyanogens, chemical compounds that can produce toxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) when the food is consumed (Table 1). Hydrogen cyanide is produced when...
    Cnidosculous chaya... Chaya
     

  4. A Positive Experience With Eucalyptus

    1997-04-19 Information about reforesting extremely eroded mountain soil with eucalyptus, a tree that is often maligned by farmers and development workers because of its supposed competition for water with food crops.
    Agroforestry Forestry Eucalyptus
     

  5. Plant Resources of South-East Asia, No 9, Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates

    1996-01-19 A large majority of the world's 800 million food-insecure people live in rural areas and are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture for their incomes and food. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates are a major source of food energy for humans and animals in general and for low-income,...
    Asia
     

  6. Invasion of the Fall Armyworm

    2018-04-27 Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a common pest in the Western Hemisphere affecting many commercial crops, most importantly maize. This voracious Lepidoptera (grouping of insects that includes butterflies and moths) was first detected in Central and Western Africa in 2016 and has quickly...
    IPM Integrated Pest Ma... Pest Management Pest Control Armyworm Crop Pests East Africa West Africa
     

  7. Echos From our Network

    1996-10-19 CINDY FAKE with Foodfor the Hungry in Mozambique wrote about her experiences controlling locusts with a tea made from leaves of the neem tree (Azadirachta indica). Meg LaVal in Costa Rica wrote of her successes withvermicomposting, or using worms to create compost quickly. “I have worked...
    Locust Neem Botanical Spray Cowpea Maize Vermicompost
     

  8. Trace Elements and Human Health

    2013-04-20 Sometimes the smallest of things can impact human health beyond all proportion to their size. Trace elements are an example of this. Trace elements in an amount that is either above or below certain thresholds in soil, animal feed, or the human diet can have important impacts on the health of...
    Trace Elements Human Health Retort Lead Arsenic Mercury Selenium Deficiency Cadmium
     

  9. ECHO International Agriculture Conference 2018

    2018-11-13 Conference Program Book Conference 2018 References
     

  10. Marketing Information from ATTRA

    2011-07-20 ECHO has not often shared marketing information and advice, because markets tend to be uncertain and volatile. Advice that is good for one location might not be helpful in another. Yet we recognize the important influence of economics and marketing in the lives of small-scale farmers. Although...
    Farm Planning Marketing