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ECHO’s Public Relations Specialist, Danielle Flood, shares a powerful example. “In Tanzania there’s a woman who learned new techniques of farming corn, allowing her to improve her corn yield using less farmland, so she kept her family
high soil salinity levels that resulted from seawater immersion,” Burnette explains. “Some of the same techniques we teach in urban gardening became important for survival during recovery when the farmland wasn’t usable for the crops they had planted.”
fed.” But with the now- extra land, the woman “planted fruit trees and a high-value vanilla crop — and through this diversification she established a business that generated the
Sixty employees in four countries are supported by the efforts of 350 volunteers, many of which are students or corporate retirees.
Sixty employees in four countries are supported by the efforts of 350 volunteers, many of which are students or corporate retirees settled in Southwest Florida. ECHO offers 10 highly sought after internships per year to
income to put her first- born through college.” Flood smiles. “This is just one story of the countless differences ECHO makes.”
college graduates in serious pursuit of international agricultural development. Men and women from the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Kenya and other countries have participated in this program, where they’re required to take
ECHO also steps in to help after disaster strikes. “After super-typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, the ECHO network helped farmers cope with
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