Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
touch base with grass roots
Spanish translation:
ponerse en contacto con las comunidades a nivel popular
English term
touch base with grass roots
"All in all, it’s good to ***touch base with grass roots***, Dogon villages with almost no contact with the outside world, let alone technology.
Proposed translations
Panama
Synesthete with a flair for tasty words!
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Costa Rican, Panamanian, Nicaraguan, Mexican, Peruvian, Venezuelan, Cuban, Honduran, Argentine, US, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Latin American, Colombian) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
mantenerse/ponerse en contacto con las comunidades a nivel popular
Según el glosario de la ONU.
http://unterm.un.org
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Note added at 7 mins (2008-01-23 16:20:48 GMT)
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(to) touch base with = mantener contacto con, ocuparse de
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1160459
It's a baseball idiom:
http://inglesparahispanohablantes.blogspot.com/2007/04/podca...
If somebody wants to “touch base with you” it means that the person wants to confer with you. Players who score a run in baseball must physically touch all four bases when they run.
Quality, Accuracy and Experience
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Mexican)
Works in: English to Spanish
regresar a sus raíces,
Argentina
20 yrs in Psychology and Education
Native in: Spanish , English
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
ponerse en contacto con nuestros inicios/nuestra base cultural
Germany
Traducciones puntuales y de calidad
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, German to Spanish
mantener contacto/acercamiento con el pópulo
United States
Don't just say it, say it right!
Native in: Spanish , English
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
hacer contacto con las zona de campo/areas campestres
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Argentine)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
hablar brevemente con la gente común
"Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms"
the grass roots: the ordinary people in a society or political organization and not the leaders
"Cambridge Idioms Dictionary Second edition"
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