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Tropical Highlands

Tropical highland regions include multiple locations throughout Central and South America, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and many of the islands in the tropics. Highland regions are characterized by high altitudes and variable rainfall. One of the main agricultural concerns for highland regions is soil erosion.

  1. TN #72 Cultivar en pendiente sin perder suelo

    Recurso clave
    1/1/2012 El Asia compone menos que la tercera parte (30%) de toda la tierra del mundo pero sostiene más que la mitad (56%) de la población mundial. Además, el promedio de la densidad poblacional del Asia se vuelve problema significativo a largo plazo cuando se considera la producción de comida. Algunos...
    Terracing A-Frame Level SALT Highland Farming Land Management Sloping Agricultur... Soil Degradation Agroforestry

  2. Tropical High-Altitude Growing Conditions

    19/4/1996 A discussion of the unique factors in growing food at high altitudes in the tropics.
    High Altitude Crops

  3. Amaranth Potential for the Highlands of Southeast Asia in View of Lessons Learned in East Africa

    1/4/2009 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 Based on the experiences of CRWRC and its collaborating partnering organizations in East Africa, the introduction of grain and vegetable amaranths shows real potential for the highlands of Southeast Asia. Grain amaranth should be seen and managed as a high...
    Drought Tolerant P... Dark Green Leafy V... Amaranth Health and Nutrition Nutrition Grain Crops Agriculture Extension Asia

  4. GMCCs for Highlands Agriculture

    A group conversation with Roland Bunch about GMCCs that might be used in highland areas. For other presentations during the ECHO East Africa Highlands Symposium: http://edn.link/t4wnhf
    East Africa

  5. BPN #6 - La agricultura de conservación (AC)

    Recurso clave
    28/9/2016 Mucho del contenido a continuación se toma de publicaciones previas de ECHO que están disponibles enwww.ECHOcommunity.org. Las referencias se abrevian como AN (Notas de Asia), EAN (Notas del Este de África), EDN (Notas de Desarrollo de ECHO), y TN (Notas Técnicas). Donde es posible, enlaces de...
    Conservation Agric... Mulch Soil Conservation Plant Diversity Crop Diversity Soil Disturbance Soil Fertility Soil Remediation Soil Erosion JCB

  6. Conservation Agriculture in East Africa

    1/7/2013 Conservation agriculture (CA) has been promoted in East Africa through a number of initiatives over the past half year. In this article, we share what ECHO has gleaned from regional partners, in hopes that you can expand upon these successes and also promote further sharing on ECHO’s website....
    Conservation Agric... East Africa

  7. TN #55 Nivel A

    Recurso clave
    1/1/2006 El Nivel A es una herramienta sencilla pero exacta para medir y construir curvas de nivel en una ladera o pendiente. Es útil para el establecimiento básico de sistemas agrícolas en laderas, tales como los sistemas S.A.L.T. (Tecnología de Pendientes en Tierras Agrícolas), así como también para...
    Appropriate Techno... A-Frame Level Highland Farming Contour Farming SALT

  8. TN #2 Amaranth Grain & Vegetable Types

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    1/1/1983 Amaranth [Amaranthus hypochondriacus, A. cruentus (grain type) & A. tricolor (vegetable type)] is an herbaceous annual with upright growth habit, cultivated for both its seeds which are used as a grain and its leaves which are used as a vegetable or green. Both leaves and seeds contain...
    Amaranth Grain Crops Leafy Vegetables HIV/AIDS

  9. Highland food security options

    26/11/2019 Leonidas Niyongabo is the Provincial Development Officer for the Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi. It coordinates a broad food security and environmental program in the province and at the national level. Prior to that, he worked with Concern Worldwide Burundi on their livelihoods...
    Food Security East Africa

  10. Conservation Agriculture in Ethiopian Highlands

    1/11/2016 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...
    Water Conservation Conservation Agric... East Africa

  11. El escobón

    31/1/2018 ECHO promueve muchoforraje para animales en el trópico y el subtrópico, para áreas áridas y húmedas, pero pocos de ellos son tolerantes a las heladas, a las sequías y prosperan en zonas altas. El escobón(Chamaecytisus palmensis), también conocido como tagasaste, es un arbusto de larga vida y...
    Fodder