1. 20/1/2006 FMNR is a form of tree coppicing and hence depends on the presence of living tree stumps that resprout after cutting.
  2. 20/7/2006 Al tratar de ayudar a las familias y comunidades privadas económicamente a iniciar y sostener la producción del frijolde soya o de cualquier otro nuevo cultivo deben tomarse en cuenta varias consideraciones técnicas. La asistencia técnica no puede hacerse en aislamiento, uno debe proporcionar más...
  3. 20/7/2009 Many of you have graciously taken the time to fill out the seed harvest report form that accompanies each mailing of seeds from our seed bank. In reading reports from people in our network, we want to learn whether the seeds we are sending out have improved the lives of poor small-holder farmers....
  4. 1/7/2004 El Proyectos de Desarrollo de Área (PDAs)de Kiffa trabaja con varias cooperativas de mujeres, a través de las cuales se efectuó la capacitación sobre huertos en llantas. Luego de la capacitación, a cada mujer se le dieron varios paquetes pequeños de semillas y se les alentó a iniciar un huerto....
  5. 20/7/2005 Over the years ECHO has been asked to give advice concerning whether or not to use hybrid seed. We carry very few hybrid varieties in our seed bank because we expect people who receive seed to multiply it locally. Now some new information about this old question, specifically about maize, has...
  6. 1/7/2004 Leímos un artículo en Appropriate Technology (Volumen 28, No. 3; Julio/Septiembre 2001) sobre agricultores en Níger que usaban tapas de botellas para distribuir pequeñísimas cantidades de fertilizante. A pesar de las condiciones de sequía, los agricultores que usaron esta técnica cosecharon de 50...
  7. 20/10/2006 Development is a) a process of people learning to solve their own problems, b) sustainably. It means progressing from one problem to another. Agricultural development is possible in more ways and climates than people often think.
  8. 20/4/2007 In observation trials, each variety is grown in only one plot of ground. Observations from such trials are not as conclusive as with replication. As long as site conditions are fairly uniform, however, they give the experimenter a pretty good idea of likely “losers” and “winners.”
  9. 20/10/2003 For many of us the idea of “research” is scary. We are not trained in it. We picture rigorous statistical analyses that we do not have any idea about. We have seen glossy scientific journals with technical words that we could not understand. Besides, isn’t our goal to directly help small farmers?...
  10. 20/10/2003 This article covers the important steps in planning and carrying out an experiment and then apply these steps to a sample experiment.