2. 923 Million people across the world are hungry Over 16,000 children die each day from hunger related causes-one child every 5 seconds (from Bread for the World Hunger Facts)
3. ECHO’s Purpose ECHO exists to help those working internationally with the poor to be more effective, especially in the area of agriculture.
6. Innovative Options ECHO helps those working overseas in the areas of Agriculture and Community Development to find solutions to the difficulties they face in their communities. We want to improve the capabilities of these workers to address local agricultural problems and to offer additional options for improving the quality of life for the people they serve.
7. Innovative Options ECHO provides this assistance in the following ways: Technical Support Publications Internet Seedbank Nursery Consulting
11. Innovative OptionsPublications ECHO Development Notes: A journal style newsletter highlighting ideas, techniques, and plants that have potential. ----- ECHO Technical Notes: Documents containing information on a particular topic.
13. Innovative OptionsInternet ECHO’s website provides a link to our publications and connects us to our network. Over 1 million documents downloaded since 2005 Visit us at: www.echonet.org
14. Innovative OptionsSeedbank ECHO sends out trial packets of seed to members of our network. ECHO’s seedbank contains over 370 varieties of hard-to-find vegetables, multi-purpose trees, fruits and other tropical crops.
15. Innovative OptionsNursery The ECHO Nursery provides a valuable training component for interns, students, and visitors. It also provides the capability to ship bud-wood & tree seedlings.
16. Innovative OptionsConsulting ECHO offers off-site as well as on-site consulting. Moringa questions in Cambodia Pineapple questions at ECHO
18. Education and Training Another way in which ECHO strives to make development workers more effective is to provide training and educational opportunities at the ECHO campus. “To improve the capability of individuals to make a significant impact on agricultural development internationally.”
19. Education and Training ECHO provides education & training in the following ways: Internship Program Formal Education Non-formal Education Workshops Library Demonstration Farm Appropriate Technologies
20. Education and TrainingInternship Program This is a one year work experience program designed to provide training for potential development workers.
22. Education and TrainingFormal Education ECHO partners with colleges to offer courses for credit to university students.
23. Education and TrainingNon-Formal Education We also offer the option of a guided self-study program designed to let international workers focus on specific topics.
25. Education and TrainingLibrary ECHO maintains a Reference Library with books, journals, magazines, videos, files, and articles on agriculture and community development.
26. Education and TrainingDemonstration Farm ECHO’s 50 acre farm is a hands-on living classroom witha 10 acre Global Village representing 6 Agro Zones
31. Education and TrainingAppropriate Technologies Demonstrations ECHO maintains a variety of demonstrations representing technologies that are being used successfully in the field and that address critical issues. Our focus is on technologies related to: Water Treatment & Filtration Water Movement & Storage Indoor Air Pollution & Improved Cookstoves Renewable Energy Post-Harvest
36. Education and TrainingAppropriate Technologies Demonstrations: Post Harvest Post-harvest losses of food grains in the developing world from mishandling, spoilage and pest infestation are around 25%. One-quarter of grains produced never reach the consumer, and the effort and money required to produce it are lost-forever.
42. Networking OpportunitiesFormal Strategic Partnerships ECHO works to develop formal partnerships with organizations that have similar interests in order to build on mutual strengths and enhance the effectiveness of each organization.
43. ECHO exists for one major reason, to help those working internationally with the poor to be more effective, especially in the area of agriculture. Let us know how we can help you. ECHO: Networking Global Hunger Solutions