Different Surfaces

ECHO demonstrated different surfaces such as, tropical highlands, urban rooftops, tropical monsoon, tropical rain forest, semi-arid tropics, and hot humid lowlands. Each facing there different obstacles to grow crops that can sustain life. Tropical highlands face mountainous conditions and have lots of soil runoff. While rain forest face lots of rain which lead to poor soil. Urban rooftops grow on rooftops from trash like tires, carpet, and cans. Tropical monsoon have moderate rain and sometimes have long drought periods. Semi-arid tropics are mainly dry with a three month rainy season. Hot humid lowlands have a long rainy season and typically crops need to be grown on hill areas.

Poverty

There are 1.4 billion lives below the poverty line and 963 million are hungry everyday. These are amazing statistics. Both of those figures are more than three times the population of the United States. Not all the people below the poverty line and who grow hungry everyday, live in the United States, but there are still some who reside in the US. One of the most wealth countries, still has people who do not receive meals on a daily basis and do not have a roof over there head. It may be by personal choice,but I'm sure not all and only if we could those in our own backyard, then proceed outside the country we could make a difference.

ECHO Fieldtrip

The field trip to Echo taught me a lot of different things. That we can plant on many different surfaces, such as rooftops. I also liked what was being done at ECHO. They were teaching other countries how to farm sustainably. Meaning they weren't just giving them food that would last them a day, but they were teaching them how to farm, which would last a lifetime. I think that shows patience and comment from ECHO to due such a thing.