1. 01/07/2013 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....
  2. Les agriculteurs de nombreuses régions du monde, en raison de la croissance démographique, n'ont guère d'autre choix que de cultiver en permanence leurs terres, avec des ressources limitées pour remplacer les nutriments retirés par chaque culture successive. Les résidus de cultures, source de...
  3. 20/11/2019 Session :This presentation will cover ways that Institute for Affordable Transportation (IAT) and its partners have been creating appropriate technology to integrate mechanization into Farming God’s Way (FGW). IAT’s farming history began with food plot implements and then transitioned to...
  4. Soil living organisms, including the large-sized (macrofauna) and small-/medium-sized (mesofauna) organisms, among others, play important roles in improving soil conditions and driving ecosystem stability, nutrient availability, and improvement of soil fertility. These organisms can break down...
  5. Session:The session will focus on highlighting and sharing with the participants the lessons learned from implementing two food security programs promoting CA principles inEastern (Tharaka Nitii), Central (Muranga), Rift Valley (Nakuru) and Western Kenya (Busia) in the last 5-7 years.Even though...
  6. Session:The major factor in the increase in droughts across Africa has been caused mostly by the gradual death of fallowing, and the resulting decrease in rainwater infiltration from about 60% down to 20% in most areas. GM/CCs are the only feasible way to save Africa from the rapidly increasing...
  7. Biographical information:Ken Giller,Professor of Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University -joined Wageningen in 2001 after holding professorships at Wye College, University of London, and the University of Zimbabwe. He currently heads up a multifaceted project,N2Africa, which puts nitrogen...
  8. Thisvideo details efforts made by SANREM Innovation Lab's LTRA-12 team, led by Dr. Manuel Reyes at NC A&T. This video, directed by Jun Mercado, talks about their efforts to spread CAPS (conservation agriculture production systems) in the Philippines.
  9. 30/04/2015 Récemment, nous avons appris à travers la correspondance entre plusieurs membres du réseau, sur le thème de l’agriculture de conservation (AC) dans les zones de fortes pluies. L’information semblait potentiellement utile pour d’autres dans le réseau d’ECHO, donc nous la partageons ici.
  10. 02/03/2016 Session: World Renew supports innovative ways to combat climate change. The presentation will dwell on lessons learnt from Conservation Agriculture promotion in pastoralist areas which will encompass adaptation, scaling up and extension methodologies based upon lessons learned from the field....