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National Seed Bank Managers Forum - Dodoma, Tanzania 2025-11-04
November 21 - 22, 2025 | Royal Village Hotel, Dodoma
This 2-day event aims to bring together community seed bank managers in Tanzania (farmers operating in community seed banks), partner organizations, and other relevant stakeholders to exchange experiences, consolidate initiatives related to community seed banks, and co-create tools and resources for improved seed bank management.
Email ECHO East Africa Seed Bank Manager, Faith Juma, with questions: easeeds@echocommunity.org
Integrated Pest Management 2025-10-28
Pest control is a crucial part of farmer management of agroecosystems. The current global situation calls for a multi-pronged approach to pest management. To be widely applicable, this approach must provide farmers with options to control pests at various scales of production (from small farms to very large operations) with a diversity of resources. Integrated pest management, a strategy based on farmer innovations, is highly adaptable to specific contexts and reduces dependency on pesticides while still recognizing their use.
If you have other approaches to pest management that have worked for you in your context, please share them with the global ECHO Network on ECHO Conversations!
Example of IPM from the Island of Bali
View a quick photo guide of insect pest damage vs. other crop damage
Read IPM Technical Note Online
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The importance of food preservation 2025-10-21
ECHO actively promotes, researches, and shares pathways and options for food preservation. Food preservation is a vital way to reduce postharvest losses, maximize profitability, retain or improve nutrient density of food commodities, and economically diversify within local food systems. ECHO West Africa has, for example, promoted and trained about creating tomato paste in areas where prices plummet as supply increases and farmers get less return on investment without this form of value-addition and preservation. ECHO East Africa has co-created drier designs for drying fruits and vegetables even in humid contexts.
Learn more about direct solar driers
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EIAC 2025 Registration Closing 2025-10-14
Have you registered for the ECHO International Agriculture Conference yet? The deadline to sign up is October 24th!
You won't want to miss out on this gathering that brings together practitioners, researchers, and educators dedicated to eradicating hunger and improving lives through sustainable agriculture and community development. Through engaging plenary speakers, breakout sessions, and hands-on workshops, you'll explore practical strategies and pathways to flourishing for communities facing food insecurity around the world.
IFOAM Strengthening International Seed Network Survey available! 2025-10-07
If you are working in seed systems, please take 15 minutes to complete the survey here:
English:Mapping farmers' seed systems actors
French:Cartographie des acteurs impliqués dans la gestion des systèmes semenciers paysans
Spanish:Mapeo de los actores de los sistemas de semillas de los agricultores
The Strengthening International Seed Network Survey is the first step in a collective effort to connect and strengthen the many organizations, networks, communities of practice, and individuals working on farmers’ seeds and cultivating biodiversity around the world. This initiative is grounded in the belief that mutual support, solidarity, and knowledge-sharing are essential for advancing farmers’ seed systems. By participating in this survey, you will help:
- Map the landscape of who is working where, on what themes, and with which approaches.
- Make visible the diversity of initiatives and highlight opportunities for exchange and collaboration.
- Lay the foundation for future tools, platforms, and activities that can facilitate joint learning, coordination, and dialogue.
Your input will not only strengthen the picture of global work on farmers’ seeds but also ensure that the tools and collaborations we develop are relevant to your needs and realities.
Helping Smallholders Earn More: Agribusiness Tools for Development Workers 2025-09-30
ECHO Asia recognizes that many of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers are business-related, rather than production-related. Farmers often report market access, low prices, unfair market practices, and price volatility among their largest challenges. ECHO is scoping the demand within our network for new resources and training opportunities within the field of agribusiness.
Please respond via the link below to have your voice heard!
Do you recognize the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in engaging with markets? Are you already working in value chain development or agribusiness? We would value your feedback!
EDN Numéro 171 Maintenant disponible 2025-09-23
Sommaire
- Le Neem (Azadirachta indica): un trésor naturel pour la protection des cultures
- L'approche des doubles différences pour évaluer l'impact d'un projet
- Échos de notre réseau: Utilisation de l'énergie solaire dans les serres
- De la Banque de semences de ECHO: Le haricot urd (Vigna mungo), gramme noir, urad dhal
- Livres, Sites Web, et Autres Ressources: Intégration des savoirs autochtones et scientifiques pour des systèmes alimentaires durables en Afrique : le principe du plug-in
Le Neem(Azadirachta indica)
un trésor naturel pour la protection des cultures
Hassan Djebro
Extrait:
- Ramasser 5 kg de fruits tombés de l'arbre. Ne prendre que des fruits mûrs de couleur jaune ou brune/chocolatée.
- Les plonger dans l’eau pendant 24 heures pour retirer les enveloppes et obtenir les coques contenant les amandes.
- Faire sécher les coques contenant les amandes en plein soleil pendant au moins une journée.
- Réunir des coques contenant des noyaux (qui ne sont pas vides).
- Faire piler au mortier pour obtenir une poudre grossière.
- Mettre le produit obtenu dans un récipient en plastique (un fût avec couvercle, un seau avec couvercle,4 etc.).
- Y ajouter 10 litres d'eau.
- Laisser macérer pendant 24 heures.
- Filtrer le produit obtenu.
ECHO East Africa Innovation Exchange Conference Presentations 2025-09-16
NOW AVAILABLE
ECHO East Africa co-hosted the Innovation Exchange Conference in collaboration with Watersheds Foundation from July 16 to 18th. The conference was a time of sharing, encouraging, and learning from one another.
Presentations from speakers that you can now access include:
- Biointensive Agriculture
- Circuit Riding for WASH in Rurual Kenyan Health Stations and Schools
- Supported Self-Supply in WASH
- Maximizing Impact Through Integrated System Design: Solar, Water, and Agri-Processing
- so much more!
Dive Deeper with ECHO CEO Abram Bicksler 2025-09-07
Saturday, September 13th | Podcast (Online)
ECHO CEO Abram Bicksler will be a plenary speaker for the September meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA). Abram's Diving Deeper Discussion will discuss ECHO's mission, vision, and commitment to reaching smallholder farmers with agroecosystem strategies based on scientific evidence and local contextualization. This involves ECHO’s core functions of identifying (finding), validating (testing), disseminating (sharing resources and training), and evaluating (measuring) agricultural options that lead to effective and impactful training and dissemination of agroecosystem strategies. Join to listen live or listen to the recording and dive deep!
ISHS IV International Underutilized Plant Species Symposium 2025-09-02
Breakout Categories
Presenter sessions are in, and conveners have set the breakout session categories for October's IV International Symposium on Underutilized Plant Species.
Breakout categories are:
- Human Nutrition and Post-harvest Processing
- Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources
- Environmental Requirements and Adaptation
- Crop Managment Considerations