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New ECHO Web Portal
THIS SITE IS NO LONGER THE MAIN ECHO INFORMATION WEB SITE
We are now supporting a new web portal at www.echotech.org. If you try that address and find that you still end up here then you will need to remove saved echotech.org pages from your browser.
On Internet Explorer these are called "Temporary Internet Files" and are found under "Tools/Internet Options" and the "General" tab.
On other browsers such as Netscape and Firefox they are in "Tools/Options" and "Cache" or "Edit/Preferences/Advanced".
You should then be able to type in www.echotech.org and be directed to the new web portal
This site will remain available for at least 3 months--the URL is: www.echotech.org/network
If you have any problems please do not hesitate to contact us. If you have other questions, comments or suggestions please send an e-mail to echo@echotech.org.
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 Help Improve Your ECHO Web Experience
Posted by BobHargraveUSA on Tuesday, March 14 @ 16:41:11 EST (826 reads)
We would like to get some feedback from you about how you use the ECHO Web Portal. Please take a few seconds to reply to our survey on the right side of this page. Thank you.
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News: On-line Journal Linking Researchers and Practitioners
Posted by MartinPrice on Wednesday, January 18 @ 15:09:41 EST (1277 reads)
NEWS RELEASE January 18, 2006
Contact: Jeffrey Faus
Trees for Life
3006 W. St. Louis
Wichita, KS 67203-5129
316-945-6929
jeffrey@treesforlife.org
Trees for Life Launches Online Scientific Journal
Free Forum Will Expand Global Knowledge about Beneficial Plants and Trees
WICHITA, KS— A new, online scientific journal focused on traditional knowledge and scientific studies of beneficial plants launched today, announced Balbir Mathur, president of the non-profit Trees for Life. Trees for Life Journal: A forum on beneficial trees and plants will be a free, open electronic forum, to bring together international articles from traditional wisdom, small-scale field studies and scientific investigations of flora that could benefit humanity. The journal is available online at www.tfljournal.org.
“Our journal aims to bridge the gap between grassroots knowledge and scientific research,” Mathur said. “By publishing formal and informal studies on beneficial plants and trees, we hope to advance the use of these vital resources worldwide.”
Trees for Life is a non-profit organization that helps plant fruit trees in developing countries as a low-cost, self-renewing food source. The movement’s philosophy of “education, health and environment” will be evident in Trees for Life Journal, which aims to expand global knowledge about the medical and nutritional value of plants, in order to educate citizens of third world countries.
The idea for the journal was born from societal claims about the nutritional, medicinal and other beneficial properties of the tree Moringa oleifera. Every part of the tree is edible or used as traditional medicine, from the leaves to the bark to the seeds. It grows wild in poor soil and provides vitamins desperately lacking in diets of impoverished people. Trees for Life recognized the need for a forum to publish and discuss scientific studies and communal knowledge of this tree, in order to promote its cultivation in the developing world. [More Below]
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Funding: Livestock for Life, Wellcome Trust
Posted by BobHargraveUSA on Wednesday, January 18 @ 07:32:28 EST (850 reads)
From the Eldis Agriculture and Development Reporter
18 January 2006
http://www.eldis.org/agriculture
Funding: Livestock for Life, Wellcome Trust
Authors: Wellcome Trust
Produced by: Announcements Listing, Eldis (2006)
The Wellcome Trust has launched final call for proposals for their global grant scheme, Livestock for Life . Awards ranging from GBP20,000 to GBP150,000, are available.
The deadline for receipt of preliminary applications is 14 February 2006.
Livestock for Life aims to strengthen links between livestock keepers, practitioners, researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders working in the field of international health. Open to a wide range of organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia and Latin America, particularly aimed at national and international development organisations (NGOs), charitable bodies and other non-profit organisations and academic or research institutions based in (or active in) the developing world. For more information on applications, visit http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/livestock/pe
Available online at: Wellcome Trust website.
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Improving Your Field Crop Research
Posted by BobHargraveUSA on Thursday, December 29 @ 13:08:20 EST (1295 reads)
LarryYargerUSA writes "Improving Your Field Crop Research with Small Farmers
By Herb Fisher
CLUSA (Cooperative League of the USA), Mozambique
In edition #81 (EDN 81) of ECHO Development Notes, the articles written by Mark MacLachlan and Ed Berkelaar on agricultural experimentation piqued my interest, as I have been conducting such research for quite a few years. I appreciate what they wrote and for tackling such a difficult topic. Research, to be done properly, is expensive, tedious, time consuming, and when carried out right, very rewarding. At any time during a field crop experiment however, something could go wrong and much or all of your (and the farmer’s) hard earned data could be lost. To try to explain how to do crop research, in simple terms for the uninitiated, certainly is not easy. Based on the articles in EDN 81, I would like to present some additional information and suggestions to perhaps further simplify the topic of on-farm research, and to encourage those working in research, particularly that which supports small farmers. "
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Experiment in Breadfruit Propagation
Posted by BobHargraveUSA on Wednesday, November 16 @ 13:19:50 EST (1120 reads)
Angela Boss, former ECHO intern and staff member, sent us this news from the Central African Republic.
I wanted to write and share with you a recent success we have had in
propagating bread fruit [Artocarpus altilis aka "Breadfruit" ed.]. As you may already know, bread fruit is seedless
and does not graft or marcott [air-layer, ed.]. The principal method of propagation that we
know of is to take root cuttings and plant them in sacks or in the ground.
Our nursery manager, Chrysler, and I tried an experiment this summer with
our trees here in Gamboula. We dug a shallow trench (10-15 cm deep) about
1-2 metres out from the drip line around our breadfruit trees. This exposed
roots that were about a pencil width in diameter and then we waited. Within
a couple of months we had shoots coming up from the roots on the non-tree
side of the trench [the side of the trench farthest from the tree, ed.]. Once they reached a decent size we dug them up and
transplanted them. We came up with the idea ourselves although I am sure it
has been tried before. I felt like I should share it with ECHO
none-the-less.
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