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The 2021 International Agriculture Conference continued the tradition of featuring leading voices in various aspects of agricultural development—practitioners, scientists, and community leaders. Content was presented in plenary and concurrent breakout sessions, with ample opportunities to network with each other, as past participants have come to know and expect.

The differences: No visa required, no travel, no hotel! Lower cost, more people, more perspectives! Attendees can also host or attend viewing parties with other delegates with similar interests or working in common regions or locations.

Conference 2021 took place in a single day, in a seven-hour period, instead of being spread out over the course of three days.

    • World-class keynote speakers
    • Interactive breakout sessions
    • Networking and interaction with speakers and other delegates

Lightning talks are 2-5 minute subject-specific videos that illustrate how practitioners around the world are implementing techniques and principles based on our four themes.

Breakout Sessions are recordings of the live discussions with the Plenary speakers and with network members representing related topic areas.  Some of these created Lightning Talks, as well.



  1. Session:We will discuss nutrient forms and sources in soils, the challenges posed by nutrient-depleted and acidic soils, and ways to restore and maintain soil fertility by judicious use of inputs and wise soil management. The presentation will include information on crop nutrient removal, organic...
  2. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Sophia Kasubi & Faith Juma
  3. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Melissa Hall
  4. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Adam Abramson
  5. Session: During this Breakout Session, you will have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions of Dr. Thompson's Plenary Talk: "Soil fertility and management in smallholder agriculture". Presenter: Dr.Tom Thompson
  6. Session:Stephan will present the importance of community involvement and participation for better and faster conservation agriculture adoption and learning. Gathering his experiences, even during the Covid pandemic, he will update the challenges and opportunities of a CA network. Stephan has had...
  7. Session: Several regional and international organizations have quoted that the food losses are significant and evident in all parts of the world and at all stages of food supply chain. Depending upon the commodity and the handling practices followed, sometimes the losses can be more than 50% of...
  8. Session:This talk will be a brief overview of why and how to consider gender issues if you are working in smallholder livestock systems. We will also discuss some strategies you can use to do this, using multiple country examples from the USAID Livestock Systems Innovation Lab and other projects....
  9. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Melissa Hall
  10. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Rocheteau Dareus
  11. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: SAWBO
  12. Session:In this Breakout Session, Pete describes ways to introduce and promote innovations by using oral arts, such as proverbs, and songs. Songs, proverbs, chants, etc. are great ways to help introduce, promote, and remember new ideas. He will show ways to involve and encourage teams in ways to...
  13. Session:Underexploited wild food plants have a high potential to contribute to nutritional and/or medicinal healthy while generating income and sustaining the environment. Grouping of these species, whether occurring naturally or by design, become low maintenance, naturalized 'Wild Gardens.' By...
  14. Session:Urgent issues require clear, proven solutions. Join agroforestry expert John Leary as he discusses five tangible steps to achieving long-term, sustainable farmland and landscape restoration. Leary has been working with rural farming communities in some of the most degraded regions of the...
  15. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Daudi
  16. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Brian Cohen
  17. Session:A look at community farmer preferences as compared to plantation popularity and usages of fruit species that are new to the region. (Central America). Example cases that include: cacao, rambutan, mameyzapote, ambarella, jackfruit, sapodilla, breadfruit, durian, mangosteen, Achachairu,...
  18. Session: During this Breakout Session, you will have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions of John Leary's Plenary Talk: "Top 5 Restoration Guidelines for Practitioners". Presenter: John Leary
  19. Session: This session will describe how growing selected mango varieties are starting to contribute to poverty reduction in Madagascar. It will describe the efforts of the largest protestant denomination in Madagascar to spread mango varieties and grafting techniques through structures of the...
  20. Session:This session will feature findings and impacts from a public-private partnership that has trained and equipped smallholders in rural northern Rwanda in modern broiler chicken production. The session will highlight the importance of adopting livelihood approaches that increase incomes and...
  21. Lightning Talk, ECHO International Agriculture Conference, November 16, 2021 Presenter: Elliot Powell