The Limpopo Task Team from Prolinnova South Africa presented two posters at the South African Society for Agricultural Extension (SASAE) conference that was held in August 2024. This was an opportunity to show case the joint experimentation work of the platform with smallscale farmers. The poster about ethnoveterinary innovation can be found here while that …
A farmer innovation day held in Limpopo Province at Mashite village in Ga-Mphahlele, Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality. The event was facilitated by the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), University of Limpopo (UL), University of Venda (UNIVEN) and the South African branch of the Eastern and Southern Africa small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF SA) on …
Another opportunity for institutionalising PID in Limpopo Province Read More »
This 4-page report provides an overview of activities that took place in the Asian Country Platforms (CPs) in Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines and South India and at regional level in 2024 within the Prolinnova–Asia network. The year was mainly focused on re-activating the Nepal CP and ensuring continuing contact among the CPs in the region …
On behalf of the Prolinnova network, Suman Manandhar from Prolinnova–Nepal was invited to take part in the DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & the Pacific held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 14–16 January 2025. A total of 76 participants from 17 countries in the Asia–Pacific region joined the event. DeSIRA (Development-Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture) is …
Prolinnova participates in DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & the Pacific Read More »
Martha Opondo from Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) represented the international Prolinnova network virtually at FAO’s Agrifood Systems Technology and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) writeshop held in Soesterberg, Netherlands, on 7-9 October 2024. The other participants were from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Wageningen University, Universidad de Talca, International Food Policy Research Institute …
Prolinnova represented at FAO ATIO writeshop in Netherlands Read More »
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 …
Brigid Letty, a member of the Prolinnova International Support Team, was invited to attend a small conference at the University of Basel in Switzerland that took place from 25 to 27 September 2025. The “Grassroots Innovations as Incubators for Sustainability Transitions” (GIIST) Conference was organised by the research project titled “Ecovillages as Incubators for Sustainability …
Prolinnova represented at GIIST Conference in Switzerland, Sept 2024 Read More »
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 »
