TropSCORE's goal is to encourage more sustainable tropical soil management throughout the cropping and fallow periods, with particular emphasis on practices involving soil cover and organic inputs, through
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stakeholders in the North and South including farmers, extensionists, researchers, donors and policy makers.

The TropSCORE Consortium is a voluntary association of regional and international members formed in March 1999 to collaboratively address constraints to information and resource access by strengthening efforts to acquire, synthesize, exchange and disseminate information about low external-input approaches for improving smallholder farming systems in the tropics and sustainably managing the natural resource base.

TropSCORE consists of non-governmental development organizations and research and educational institutions with a common interest in cover crops, green manures and other organic means of managing tropical soils as well as related sustainable agriculture topics that are primarily relevant to resource-limited farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

TropSCORE is expanding its core membership from Africa and the Americas to Europe and Asia. Core TropSCORE members currently are:

TropSCORE Consortium members meet biennially, collaborate on workshops and undertake joint information outreach projects. Projects are designed to cross language barriers as well as media barriers by integrating electronic, print and face-to-face communications. Current projects include:

EVECS-L, a French-language list with 76 members sponsored by CIEPCA;

COBERAGRI-L, a Spanish-language list with 110 subscribers from 24 countries sponsored by CIDICCO;

MULCH-L, an English-language list with over 267 subscribers in over 40 countries.