1. TN #47 Composting Toilets

    Ressource principale 01/01/2002 A composting toilet is any system that converts human waste into compost through the natural breakdown of organic matter. The photo above shows a composting toilet from the late 1800’s. Composting toilets provide a sanitary method to recycle human waste while conserving water and protecting the...
    Appropriate Techno... Composting Composting Toilets

  2. TOAM Poster - Mbolea Mboji

    Ongeza mavuno yako kwa kutumia mboji!

  3. Rice Hull Gold - 10 On-Farm Uses of Rice Hulls

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 37. One of the great challenges of sustainable agriculture is the sourcing of adequate and affordable organic (carbon based) resources that can be used on-farm for the production of food and feed. Utilizing composts, manures, mulches, and other organic inputs...
    Waste By-products Rice Hulls

  4. Backyard Vermicomposting Systems: Examples from Myanmar

    Introduction to Vermiculture There are over 6,000 species of worms in the world, many of them not even named or studied. However, the farmer is interested in two main categories of earthworms, namely “deep burrowers” and “surface dwellers”. Deep burrowers include the common garden worm or...
    Vermicompost Vermiculture Vermicast Worms Worm Casting Asia

  5. Sustainable Agriculture Book - Chapter 10 Composting

    20/01/2005 Composting is Fundamental #4. Compost will build up organic matter and create humus for your soil. The finished product of decomposition is called compost. Composting is a controlled process in which we capture a high percentage of nutrients from our crop residue and return it back to the soil in...
    Composting

  6. Tricho-Composting in Bangladesh

    15/06/2015 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #24 Tricho-compost is the material that results when spores of a beneficial fungus, Trichoderma sp. are used in the composting process. Trichoderma sp. are natural competitors against a wide range of harmful fungi; when it is added to compost, the latter can...
    Compost Asia

  7. Comment preparer son compost en trois semaines?

    01/08/2017 La baisse, voire la perte de fertilité des sols, est le défi majeur que rencontre de plus en plus d’agriculteurs de par le monde en général et particulièrement ceux d’Afrique subsaharienne. De nombreuses causes essentiellement anthropiques sont à l’origine de cette situation. En dépit des...
    Compost Composting Garden Compost Soil Fertility Soil Health Restoration Land Restoration West Africa

  8. Agroforestry Coffee Cultivation in Combination with Mulching, Trenches and Organic Composting in Uganda

    This technology describes a combination of good practices for soil and water conservation that were introduced to coffee farmers in the central cattle corridor of Uganda, with aim to enhance their resilience to dry spells, pests and diseases, as part of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)...
    Fertility Trenches Mulching Composting Coffee Agroforestry Systems East Africa

  9. Trench beds (deep trenching, fertility trenches)

    Trench beds are 1m wide and 2m long. They are dug to 1m deep then packed with dry grass/leaves, compost, manure and soil. Used in food-gardens. They make (create) highly fertile soils which can absorb and store water. Provide an immediately usable planting bed even on shallow or poor soils. Often...
    Fertility Trenches Deep Trenching Trench Beds

  10. Compost for Soil Regeneration - Bioreactor

    Healthy soil is teaming with life in the form of billions of microscopic soil organisms. A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain more soil microorganisms than there are people on earth. The soil microorganisms found in healthy, or “living soil,” have important functions including converting...
    Bioreactor

  11. How to Build Your Own Bioreactor

    The Johnson-Su Bioreactor method of creating compost is quite different from other composting methods in several respects. The most common commercial windrow composting processes are usually designed and operated for speed and maximum product flow. Unfortunately, this focus does not allow the...
    Bioreactor

  12. Composting - Larry Yarger (2010)

    This 4 part video by former ECHO staff member, Larry Yarger, was produced in 2010. This is Part 1 Part 2 -https://youtu.be/Gj7rPHrxu1M Part 3 -https://youtu.be/UHcnOrY9Ww8 Part 4 -https://youtu.be/InUnYFrVNMo
    JCB

  13. Blatticomposting

    Blatticomposting is a new technique that uses cockroaches to convert human food wastes into compost. Of the 4000 or so species of cockroaches, less than 15 are pests of human dwellings. These species give cockroaches overall a bad reputation; all other species of cockroach are harmless, living...
    Blatticomposting Cockroaches Roach

  14. Le Jardinage de Survie: Comment faire pour créer du compost en Français (accent de la République Démocratique du Congo) HHI 3D

    Le compost peut être utilisé pour améliorer la qualité de votre sol. Vous pouvez utiliser des matières végétales de fumier et les déchets de cuisine pour créer du compost. Le compost ajoute des nutriments et la matière organique à votre sol. Cette animation explique le processus de création et de...
    Gardening Compost SAWBO

  15. Making great compost

    Vegetable crops thrive in healthy soil. Farmers can improve the quality of their soil and provide nutrients for their plants by making and adding compost to their fields or planting beds. In this video produced by the World Vegetable Center for the VINESA project, researcherEmanuel Pallangyo...
    Compost East Africa

  16. Maize Production with Manure- Amended Compost

    01/01/2021 Information from ECHO Network member Daryl Edwards from his work in Zimbabwe suggested that using quality compost containing 10% cow manure results in a maize harvest similar to that obtained with 100% cow manure. This could be significant to farmers who have small farm sizes and limited...
    Maize Compost Manure

  17. Compost de paille de riz - video

    AccessAgriculture Training Video Les petits fermiers peuvent avoir du mal à maintenir leurs terres en bonne santé et recours à l'achat d'engrais pour améliorer leurs rendements. Il y aura un plus grand rendement en faisant du compost et la terre s'améliorera d'année en année. Pour transformer...
    Compost Rice Straw Soil Fertility Sustainable Land M... AccessAgriculture

  18. Practical Action Resources - Soil fertility and Composting

    This section looks at the way in which soil quality can be maintained and improved through a number of techniques including the use of fertilizer, manure and compost.
    Composting Vermicompost

  19. Dry Composting Toilets: Good News for God’s Green Earth III

    03/10/2017 There are many appropriate building technologies available. How environmentally friendly are they? Earthquake resistant? Typhoon resistant? How can we introduce new materials to a traditional construction culture? Why would we want to produce our own materials? How can we make production...
    Composting Toilets Asia

  20. Compost Heap Impact on Habari Maalum

    24/03/2015 The Habari Maalum Tree Nursery, outside of Arusha, Tanzania, provides over 200,000 tree seedlings per year to the surrounding villages. Until recently, HM has relied upon forest soil collected from the Olmotonyi Forest on the lower slopes of Mt Meruto replenish their nursery. Increasingly, there...
    Composting East Africa

  21. On Farm Composting Methods

    Composting is an attractive proposition for turning on-farm organic waste materials into a farm resource. However, farmers in many parts of the world, and especially in developing countries, are unable to make the best use of the composting opportunities available to them. This is because they...
    Composting

  22. Making Compost in Three Weeks

    Compost is well known to be a good organic fertilizer and soil conditioner. It is a product derived from the decomposition of organic matter or agricultural wastes. In normal circumstances, it takes about four to five months to get compost from the composting process. However, a new technique of...
    Compost Asia

  23. Effect of Different Organic Fertilizers Application on Soil Organic Matter Properties

    ABSTRACT - Journal of Compost Science and Utilization, 2017 The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of application of different organic fertilizers (general organic fertilizer, GOF; biogas residue, BR; refined organic fertilizer, ROF) as compared to no fertilizer on the composition of...
    Compost Vermicompost

  24. Soil pH Buffering Capacity and Nitrogen Availability Following Compost Application in a Tropical Acid Soil

    ABSTRACT - Journal of Composting Science and Utilization, 2017 Tropical acid soils are highly weathered as they exist under tropical environment with high rainfall and temperature throughout the year, which affects nitrogen availability. Soil organic nitrogen is important in estimating soil...
    Acidic Soil Composting Soil pH

  25. Coffee Grounds and Composting

    Coffee grounds are a great addition to the garden and compost pile. Help to recycle this great organic resource and reduce the amount of organics going to the landfill! Some information about coffee grounds: Coffee grounds are about 2% nitrogen by volume. Grounds are not acidic; the acid in...
    Coffee Grounds

  26. Biochar and Compostization: Maximization of Carbon Sequestration with Mitigating GHG Emission in Farmlands

    ABSTRACT, FFTC In Japan charcoal has been used for a long time as environmental improver, soil improver in a firm, water purification material and odor adsorbent. It was reported that biochar has proliferation effect of symbiosis microorganisms such as root nodule bacteria and mycorrhiza in farm...
    Biochar Composting

  27. Sheet Mulch - Lasagna Composting

    Sheet composting is an ancient technique that has many practical applications today. Also referred to as lasagna composting or sheet mulching, sheet composting is a cold composting method that has been used by people around the world for generations. It is an excellent way to convert grass to...
    No Till Lasagna Gardening Composting Mulch

  28. Composting with biochar and urine

    13/02/2019 Session: The productivity of garden land depends on soil fertility, water and climate. Compost is an excellent resource to increase water holding capacity in the first place and to provide nutrients to the soil. Recent trends have introduced other techniques and key words for organic farming...
    Compost Urine Biochar East Africa

  29. Bending the Curve - Best practice interventions for the circular economy in developing countries

    The circular economy offers an unparalleled opportunity. It’s good for the economy, good for society and good for the planet. Supporting the transition would save lives and create employment, accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and reducing the tension between lifting...
    Economic Alternatives

  30. Easy Compost

    18/06/2013 Everything you need to know to turn your garden and kitchen scraps into "black gold" Farmers and horticulturists have long understood the benefits of compost to their soil and plants. Compost provides important nutrients; offers habitat for beneficial fungi, earthworms, and other creatures; and...
    Compost

  31. On-Farm Production of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Inoculum in Compost and Vermiculite Mixtures: Results of On-Farm Demonstrations and Impact of Compost Microbiological Quality

    Abstract, Journal of the NACAA, 2014 The sustainability and profitability of many agricultural systems can be enhanced through the utilization of inoculum of arbuscular mycorrhizal [AM] fungi. Inocula are commercially available, but inoculum can also be produced on-farm in mixtures of compost and...
    Mychorrizal Compost

  32. The Many Benefits of Hugelkultur

    Hugelkultur, pronounced Hoo-gul-culture, means hill culture or hill mound. Instead of putting branches, leaves and grass clippings in bags by the curbside for the bin men... build a hugel bed. Simply mound logs, branches, leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper,...
    Composting Hugelkultur Lasagna Gardening

  33. Composting - Simple Steps for Starting at Home

    Composting is nature’s way to recycle. Composting happens. It’s simply the slow, natural decomposition of organics. Composting at home is the controlled and faster decomposition of organics such as yard trimmings and food waste that you and your family generate. Microorganisms break down this...
    Composting

  34. Olive Mill Pomace Treatment: Composting as Organic Fertilizer

    In modern olive mills, the most common method for extracting olive oil from the olive paste is two-phase decanter. Because the two-phase extraction system is less complicated, consumes less energy and yields higher quality olive oil, there is approximately 90% olive mills in Spain using this...
    Olives Olive Industry and... Oil Extraction

  35. ISHS II International Symposium on Organic Matter Management and Compost Use in Horticulture

    Convener R. Ortga Blu Editors R. Ortega Blu, M.M. Martínez S., P. Ospina S. Publication date 27 March 2015 ISBN 978-94-62610-66-8 ISSN 0567-7572(print) 2406-6168(electronic) Number of articles 28 Volumes 1 Place Santiago, Chile

  36. Le Jardinage de Survie: Comment faire pour créer du compost en Français (accent de la République Démocratique du Congo) 3D

    Le compost peut être utilisé pour améliorer la qualité de votre sol. Vous pouvez utiliser des matières végétales, de fumier et les déchets de cuisine pour créer du compost. Le compost ajoute des nutriments et la matière organique à votre sol. Cette animation explique le processus de création et...
    SAWBO Gardening Compost

  37. Compost versus Soil: What's the difference?

    Composting is the natural process of 'rotting' or decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms under controlled conditions. Raw organic materials such as crop residues, animal wastes, food garbage, some municipal wastes and suitable industrial wastes, enhance their suitability for...
    Compost Asia

  38. ISHS I International Symposium on Organic Matter Management and Compost Use in Horticulture

    Convener J. Biala Editors J. Biala, R. Prange, M. Raviv Publication date 25 January 2014 ISBN 978-94-62610-04-0 ISSN 0567-7572(print) 2406-6168(electronic) Number of articles 76 Volumes 1 Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  39. Du compost contre le striga - video

    AccessAgriculture Training Video Le compost est plus puissant que le fumier. Ce qui est moins connu est que les micro-organismes dans le compost attaquent les graines de striga dans le sol. Le compost réduit aussi l’émergence du striga et diminue son effet négative sur les cultures de céréale....
    Weed Control Weeds Striga Compost Soil Fertility Sustainable Land M... AccessAgriculture

  40. La poussière de la fibre de coco - video

    AccessAgriculture Training Video La poussière de fibre de coco se dégrade si lentement qu’elle est souvent considérée inutile pour l’agriculture. Mais la poussière-fibre bien décomposée peut absorber cinq fois son poids en eau. Ainsi lorsqu’elle est appliquée à votre sol, elle peut retenir l’eau...
    AccessAgriculture Compost Coconut Coir Microbial Soil Fertility

  41. Le Jardinage de Survie: Comment faire pour créer du compost en Français (accent de la République Démocratique du Congo) HHI 2D

    Le compost peut être utilisé pour améliorer la qualité de votre sol. Vous pouvez utiliser des matières végétales de fumier et les déchets de cuisine pour créer du compost. Le compost ajoute des nutriments et la matière organique à votre sol. Cette animation explique le processus de création et de...
    SAWBO Compost Organic Fertilizer

  42. Composting in the Classroom: Scientific Inquiry for High School Students

    The goal of Composting in the Classroom is to provide high school science teachers with the background needed to engage students in research focusing on composting. There are a number of reasons why composting research lends itself well to the classroom setting. First, composting of yard wastes...

  43. Earthworms for Ecology and Profit Vol. 1, Scientific Earthworm Farming

    Ressource principale 01/01/1975 This complete and informative text tells exactly how to get started in in the vermiculture business.
    Vermiculture Earthworm Culture Earthworms Business Skills

  44. FM 1994 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 10 #3

    19/10/1994 Recovery of city waste Earthworms as credit Organic wastes hijacked Recycle or pollute Micro-organisms Recycling urban night soil Modified anaerobic composting Drawing bioresource flows
    Anaerobic Composting Earthworms Microorganisms Recycling Organic Waste

  45. Agrodok 008, La fabrication et l’utilisation du compost

    01/01/1980 Cette brochure a été compilée pour donner des informations sur la façon dont le compost peut être appliqué dans les régions tropicales et subtropicales. Il donne une description simple des processus qui se déroulent dans le sol et lors du compostage. Des suggestions pratiques sont données pour la...
    Compost Agrodok Compost Use

  46. Coir Compost

    The largest by products of coconut is coconut husk from which coir fibre is extracted. This extraction process generates a large quantity of dusty material called coir dust or coir pith. Large quantity of coir waste of about 7.5 million tones is available annually form coir industries in India....
    Coconut Coir

  47. Coffee Silverskin

    01/07/2022 Coffee silverskin is high in nutrients, but contains recalcitrant and phytotoxic compounds, limiting its use as a mulch or soil amendment. Fortunately, composting can reduce or eliminate these problems. Composition Figure 1. Components of the coffee cherry. (Narita and Inouye 2014) Coffee...

  48. Healthy Soil for Healthy Communities - An Introduction to Soil Health Practices for Africa

    20/01/2021 The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of civil society actors who are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. AFSA brings together farmers, pastoralists, fishers, indigenous peoples, faith groups, women’s movements, youth, and consumer...