2023 Videos - ECHO East Africa Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies
ECHO East Africa Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies connects individuals and organizations who seek to share their knowledge and best practices. This event will provide a network and training opportunity for those involved in alleviating hunger and poverty in East Africa.
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Session: Agroecology is quickly gaining traction around the world as a science, practice, and social movement to make transformational changes to our food systems. Often described as the utilization of ecological concepts and principles for the design and management of sustainable food systems,...
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Session:This presentation will focus on a case study in Karatu District where Iles de Paix is supporting small-scale farmers in their agroecological transition process at the farm level. We will explore the best practices, lessons learned, and challenges as well as the multiple effects of...
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Session:The presentation highlights holistic perspectives of agroecology in making agriculture more productive and ecological. It entails a holistic approach, seeking social, economic, and political change as well as people-led development. It explainsthe agroecological agricultural system's...
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Session:Crop-raiding by elephants can devastate small farmers, leading to food insecurity, lost opportunity costs, and even death, as well as negative attitudes towards elephants, but finding effective and inexpensive solutions, has proven extremely difficult. Beehive fences surrounding crops...
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Session: The presentation will highlight the successes, challenges, and best practices to mobilize community buy-in in the adoption of FMNR and rainwater harvesting. Speaker: Njamasi Chiwanga works as the Director of Programs at LEAD Foundation - a local NGO based in Dodoma, Central Tanzania....
- This presentation is in Swahili and is contributed by Network Member Bethuel Mshanga. This presentation is of the Arusha Rocket Stove. Steps are detailed below: Comments to video showing the performance of the Arusha Rocket stove, made and presented by Bethuel Mshanga...
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Session:Rangeland degradation and invasive species infestation in northern Tanzania, driven by climate and societal change, reduces threatened wildlife populations and threatens food security for pastoralist communities. Here, women are the biggest victims of climate change and land degradation...
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Session:The session will address promoting community ownership for sustainable development through Asset Based Community Development. Development starts with changing people’s mindset to believe in themselves, appreciate what is within their means - their abilities, talent, and resources and...
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Session:Simon Ewing will share on empowering women farmers with agricultural technology hubs. Speaker:Simon Ewing is a missionary serving with Emmanuel International UK in Mwanza, Tanzania. A mechanical engineer by training, Simon is currently running an innovation trial funded by Fund for...
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Session:We cannot face the climate crisis alone. We need solutions from grassroots communities, scientists, technology companies, governments, and the private sector. We need to create new pathways to share knowledge and best practice to accelerate ecosystem restoration. Let's imagine together...
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Session:Conservation Agriculture (CA) provides clear soil conservation benefits, but meta-analyses from across sub-Saharan Africa indicate that CA on its own only provides a small increase in yields – not enough for most farmers to overcome food insecurity in the short term. Taking a more...
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2024-01-25 At ECHO East Africa’s recent symposium on appropriate technologies and renewable energy, several presentations were shared by innovators proposing solutions to various challenges. These presentations can be found on www.echocommunity.org [http://edn.link/tzat23]. In order to encourage readers to...
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Session:This session will go over relating the four areas of Holistic approaches to stop the Food Crisis. Speaker: Seeds of Hope
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Session:The presentation will discuss recent changes being implemented in the TFS Meru Plantation Forest through the ‘Taungya’ management of land. Farmers contract to cultivate land which is planted to forestry species for annual crops until the tree canopy closes, but until recently, did not...
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Session:The presentation will focus on women processing groups that have been capacitated by WODSTA to add value to different agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and honey, and to enable women to access reliable markets for processed, preserved fruits and vegetables to augment their...
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Session:The presentation will focus on sharing experiences and lessons learned in promoting community participation and engagement for biodiversity protection. It will highlight the role of land use planning in promoting community conservation initiatives and landscape management. We will also...