1. The Crop Calendar is a tool that provides timely information about seeds to promote local crop production. It contains information on planting, sowing and harvesting periods of locally adapted crops in specific agro-ecological zones. It also provides information on the sowing rates of seed and...
  2. 20/3/2000 For centuries, Andean farmers in Peru and Bolivia have monitored the brightness of the Pleiades stars to determine when to plant potato crops for optimal rainfall. Now scientists have validated the farmers’ weather forecasting methods.
  3. 20/1/2001 SRI involves the use of certain management practices which together provide better growing conditions for rice plants, particularly in the root zone, than those for plants grown under traditional practices. We recently learned about a method of raising rice that produces substantially higher...
  4. 20/4/2002 A researcher in the Sri Lankan national agricultural research system began screening a number of green manure crops for biomass production and N-content. Sesbania rostrata stood out among the species that were screened (others included S. sesban, S. aculeata, Crotalaria juncea and C. caricia).
  5. 1/10/2002 It is not uncommon for people to rely on crops that are not the most suitable for their region. Here is an example from Ethiopia with some suggestions for alternatives.
  6. 1/10/2002 The July/September 2001 issue of Appropriate Technology (Volume 28, No. 3) included several articles about SRI (System of Rice Intensification; see EDN 70).
  7. 1/1/2008 En 2005, el gerente de la finca de ECHO, Danny Blank, tomó un período sabático de tres meses como “reportero agrícola ambulante” para ECHO, visitando varios países en el sudeste de África. Lance Edwards, un antiguo empleado de ECHO que ahora trabaja en el desarrollo agrícola en la región, le...
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    1/1/2010 Las comunidades agrícolas de las regiones del trópico semi-árido de África, se han vuelto muy vulnerables y enfrentan retos muy grandes en su supervivencia; Los cambios en el clima, las escazas e inconstantes precipitaciones, las tradicionales prácticas agrícolas mono culturales, el crecimiento...
  9. 1/7/2009 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #2 In a 2001 ECHO Development Notes article, “SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less can be more,” ECHO first reported on SRI’s radical rice production steps including: Transplanting rice seedlings when the first two leaves have emerged, usually sometime...
  10. The concept of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) is distinct from, and more complex than, a conventional heritage site or protected area/landscape. A GIAHS is a living, evolving system of human communities in an intricate relationship with their territory, cultural or...