1. 04/12/2017 ECHO in Latin America and the Caribbean Experimenting with Medicinal Plants in Matagalpa, Nicaragua Staff Highlight Tech Note Spotlight: "Introducing new seeds overseas" Tech Note Spotlight: "Introduction to Tropical Root Crops" Echoes from our Network Resources: Wuqu' Kawoq (The Maya Health...
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  4. SIFAT (Servants in Faith and Technology), a nonprofit Christian organization, provides training in community development in hard places in our world. Christian leaders learn self-help skills for basic human needs including physical and spiritual needs, social and economic. SIFAT raises awareness...
  5. AccessAgriculture Training Video Une pratique traditionnelle de l'Amérique centrale consiste à pliez la tige du maïs pour l'aider à sécher et à le protéger contre les maladies et les ravageurs. Si vous faites cela au bon moment, vous récolterez plus. Les grains de maïs continuent à pousser...
  6. Cedicam's work supports the subsistence agriculture farmer population, reducing migration, promoting food security, food sovereignty and sustainable farming practices. In 2002, four communities working with Cedicam received an honorable mention from the Mexican Federal Government for their...
  7. Sustainable Harvest International was built on the fact thatenvironmental degradation and rural poverty are unavoidably linked. That’s why the solution must also be linked. Since 1997, we have provided local, long-term technical assistance and training to rural farming families inCentral America....
  8. AccessAgriculture Training Video L’analyse économique permet aux paysans de savoir combien ils gagnent ou combien ils perdent lorsqu’ils passent d’une technologie à une autre, ou lorsqu’ils passent d’une pratique à une autre. Ceci lui permet de prendre une décision pour l’année à venir sur la...
  9. For those of you working to rebuild agriculture in hurricane-ravaged Caribbean and Central American communities, we’ve assembled somefree agroforestry training materialsthat will immensely benefit you: How to plant windbreaks to stop and slow heavy winds How to build contours to stop erosion How...
  10. The tree spinach (Cnidoscolus chayamansaMcVaughn, Euphorbiaceae), called "chaya" in south Texas, is popular in Mexico and Central America and has been introduced into the United States (mainly South Texas and Florida) for potential uses as a leafy vegetable and/or as a medicinal plant. The plant...