The Prolinnova network celebrates International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) every year on or about 29 November. In this context, Prolinnova–Senegal organised a forum on agricultural water management on 28 November 2024. This brought together 20 innovators (including 6 women) whose innovations had been selected and validated in Phase 2 of the “Promoting Local Innovation in …
On 26–29 November 2024, the 2nd International Scientific Colloquium of Benin’s National University of Agriculture (UNA) focused on “Agroecology and sustainable development in Africa”. A keynote speaker was Djibril Thiam, Coordinator of Prolinnova–Senegal, who presented how Prolinnova supports small-scale farmer experimentation and innovation in agroecology; see his PPT (in French) here. Paul Jimmy, Prolinnova’s Subregional …
On 8–11 October 2024, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) hosted a training workshop in Kisimu to introduce and reinforce concepts participatory innovation development (PID) and its institutionalision to people – some of them new to the Prolinnova network – who are involved in the ELI-FaNS project (Expanding the promotion of Local Innovation for Food Security and healthy Nutrition …
Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) coordinator, attended two events in October and November 2024 in which he presented Prolinnova’s approach and achievements: the Farmer Research Network (FRN) Convening organised by McKnight Foundation and the first National Agroecology Symposium hosted by PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Kenya. The FRN Convening included a visit to local innovators …
Farmer Research Network Convening & National Agroecology Symposium in Kenya Read More »
The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …
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The Nepal Permaculture Group (NPG) agreed in September 2024 to be the new host organisation of Prolinnova–Nepal. NPG held a virtual meeting of the Country Platform (CP) on 18 October 2024. Prem Bahadur Thapa, Executive Director of NPG and the new coordinator of Prolinnova–Nepal, facilitated the meeting with support from Prolinnova partners – Chesha Wettasinha …
The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …
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Ce catalogue de 95 pages Recueil des processus de développement participatif de l’innovation présente en détail onze processus de développement participatif de l’innovation (DPI) facilités par le réseau Prolinnova-Cameroun en 2023 et 2024. Il présente les résultats des recherches menées conjointement par les paysans et les scientifiques sur les innovations locales dans les domaines de …
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The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …
New Friends of Prolinnova: Suman Manandhar and Violet Kirigua Read More »
The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine features two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …
