1. This is a checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The original data was created by combining information the digitisedFlora d’Afrique Centralewith data from the African Plants Database, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and from...
  2. 2019 Presentations - East Africa Symposium on Best Practices in Improved Nutrition & Sustainable Agriculture in Highland Areas
  3. The database contains photographs of plants from East Africa in a broad geographical sense. You can search for scientific or vernacular names (or parts thereof, no wildcard necessary) via free text (in: “What are you looking for”) You can browse through a taxonomic hierarchy starting with family...
  4. 1.8 billion people have access to electricity but still cook with biomass. Load shedding, weak grids, affordability of electricity, accessibility of liquid petroleum gas (LPG), tradition, perceptions, and a lack of suitable cooking appliances all act as barriers to scaling up the use of...
  5. The Challenge : Solar panels and biogas digesters provide essential sources of light, electricity and cooking fuel in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the poorest African families remain unable to afford them, excluding them from accessing vital clean energy sources. At the same time some of their...
  6. 01-10-2019 Introduction to Soil Structure and Health Acidic Soils of the Tropics Testing and Replenishing your Soils Soil Texturing Flowchart
  7. ECHO publications referenced in this document include ECHO Development Notes (EDN), East Africa Notes (EAN), Technical Notes (TN), and ECHO East Africa Symposium (EEAS) presentations. Technical Notes and EDN issues can be found by clicking on the “Publications” tab on ECHO’s networking site,...
  8. 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....
  9. 20-01-2013 This Feed Table, which is generated from the feed resources data base established through the implementation of the project on “Establishment of feed resources data base in Eastern and Central Africa” implemented in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda from January 2010 to December 2011....
  10. 24-02-2020 o Arrival / Registration: - 10:00am - 10:45am latest, Monday, 24th February 2020. Those coming from distant locations can arrive a day earlier. Meals and accommodation will be charged extra. Call or email us for more details on this. o Time Frame: - Opening session: Monday 24th February, 11.45am....