Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization

ECHO, Inc #echofightshunger is a non-profit agro-ecological organization whose mission is to support small-scale farmers through the dissemination of information and underutilized plant seeds.

Its 56 acre campus houses the North America Impact Center, a demonstration and research farm, a reference library with a variety of resources about rare agricultural crops and techniques,[5] a seed bank, a tropical fruit nursery with a large collection of bamboo varieties, and a bookstore.

ECHO maintains a collection of useful tropical trees and other plants and provides seed and cuttings,[10] free of charge, to individuals actively involved in agricultural development, with the intention that these open-pollinated seeds will be harvested from the resulting crops and distributed in the communities.

[11][12] For example, ECHO disseminates seeds and information about Moringa oleifera, a nutritional plant species useful for providing essential vitamins and minerals for people in developing countries in the tropics.

ECHO publishes a series of technical notes that cover a variety of topics related to appropriate technology, agroecology and agroforestry.