ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization) has a variety of farming techniques and technologies that should "hopefully" be beneficial for developing nations around the world. The different ideas that you witness throughout the tour such as the different farming and agriculture systems. I feel American agriculture has strayed from this approach to farming. American agriculture uses a more mass feeding and artificial method that has led to it being one of the most hazardous industries.ECHO's relevance to feeding the developing world is minute to the scale of global hunger. The whole point of ECHO is to teach people from developing nations how just "not to farm, but to work to make farmers more effective at growing food producing crops under harsh conditions. Appropriate technology is used to help these people from developing nations. Appropriate technology is a means to use small scale, labor intensive, energy sufficient, and environmentally sound methods usually towards agriculture. An example of appropriate technology are bike and hand powered water pumps and other self powered equipments. I would be interested in doing service learning with ECHO in order to work with developing nations around the world. Different cultures interest me, and to just know that I am giving a helping hand to a great idea would be very fulfilling.
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