Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future

2017 Annual Meeting | Oct. 22-25 | Tampa, FL

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Division: Tours

Title: ECHO - Global Farm for Fighting World Hunger

Organizer: Sjoerd Willem Duiker
Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Global Agronomy
Community Cosponsor:
Format: None (Admin Only)
Keywords: Echo - Global Farm for Fighting World Hunger, Small scale technologies, Sustainable farming and Tropics

Session Description: ECHO is an information hub for development practitioners around the world. ECHO gathers solutions from around the world that are solving hunger problems and disseminate them to its active network. These solutions promote sustainable farming techniques, nutritional plants, and appropriate technologies for small scale applications in developing countries. This tour will be to the ECHO Global Farm in Ft. Myers.