Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO)

ECHO is continuing to build a knowledge base of agricultural practices and appropriate technologies and then deliver this knowledge to development workers around the globe to reduce hunger and improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. This work involves field and literature research, extensive networking with development practitioners, seed production and testing, writing and translating knowledge resources, providing training and supporting a growing network of members who access ECHO resources from over 170 countries each month. The thousands of user and hundreds of organizations who utilize ECHO resources regularly evaluate the usefulness and impact of these resources and the effectiveness of their delivery.

In order to move its knowledge resource development and dissemination activities closer to small-scale farmers around the world, ECHO operates Regional Impact Centers/Teams in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and West Africa. These Impact Centers focus on practices, knowledge, seeds, trainings, research and networking that are most beneficial to small-scale farmers and development workers in the respective regions. The work of the Regional Impact Centers/Teams is heavily supported by ECHO's U.S.-based activities identified in 4a above. ECHO's regional resources and trainings are regularly evaluated by practitioners throughout the regions.