8th ECHO East Africa is an agricultural summit for the development of livelihood in the pastoralist sector.
The Symposium is organized by ECHO East Africa and it is scheduled to take place in Arusha, Tanzania from 9th - 11 August 2023.
The event will provide a good networking and training platform for the entire participants involved in poverty eradication in the pastoralist area around East Africa.
The plenary sessions will feature knowledgeable speakers followed by discussions and workshops led by regional agricultural development workers and experts.
The Uganda ECHO Symposium's typical themes usually include:
· Improving nutrition among the most food insecure
· Conservation Agriculture
· Improving markets/value chains
· Climate-smart agriculture in the driest areas in different agri-food systems
· Innovations in water harvesting and gardening practices and techniques
· Livestock practices, remote livestock services,
· Good development practices
· Environmental concerns
· Scaling up, and use of social/mass media