Contacts: Georges Djohy (gdjohy@gmail.com) / Léonard Adje (leonardadje180@gmail.com)
English text below Prolinnova–Bénin a été créée en mai 2021 – une idée de longue date qui a finalement pu être réalisée grâce au projet de « Renforcement de capacités des enseignants des lycées agricoles pour soutenir l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle », mis en œuvre par l’Université de Parakou (UP) dans …
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 …
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 …
Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut Read More »
The Prolinnova subregional platform in West & Central Africa (WCA) comprises multistakeholder Country Platforms (CPs) in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Mali. Most activities were implemented by these CPs under five externally funded projects, with the support of Misereor (Germany) and McKnight Foundation (USA). In the 2023 annual report from WCA, the Subregional …
Two articles were published in June 2024 in the Prolinnova section of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol 51, No. 2): Action funds stimulate mutual learning about child nutrition in Benin by Paul Jimmy, Honorat Edja, Brigitte Kaufmann & Ann Waters-Bayer Ghanaian experience in helping women farmers improve sales of a local innovation by Joseph Nchor …
Articles from Benin and Ghana in June edition of Appropriate Technology magazine Read More »
En 2023, Prolinnova–Bénin a poursuivi ses actions de promotion de l’innovation locale et de développement participatif d’innovation (DPI) pour la sécurité alimentaire et la résilience des communautés paysannes. L’année 2023 a été charnière avec le démarrage du projet “Expansion de la promotion de l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et une nutrition saine pour renforcer …
Prolinnova-Benin rapport annuel / annual report 2023 Read More »
“Expanding the promotion of local innovation for food security and healthy nutrition to strengthen resilience with focus on women” (ELI-FaNS, 2023–25) is a follow-on project to SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate in Food and Nutrition Security, 2019–22) and has the following objectives: 1. Small-scale farmers (especially women and youth) actively innovate to improve …
In the June 2023 issue (Vol.50, No. 2) of the Appropriate Technology magazine, two articles appeared in the Prolinnova section: Workshop on promoting farmer innovation in Benin unleashes local capacities for farmer-led research and development (pp 14 – 16); and ILEIA and Compas publications on agroecology digitalised (p 17). The Appropriate Technology magazine has regularly …
Articles on Benin and on ILEIA/Compas in Appropriate Technology Read More »
Après sa mise en place en 2021, Prolinnova–Bénin s’est essentiellement investi dans le renforcement de capacités de ses membres en 2022. L’accompagnement de la Faculté d’Agronomie de l’Université de Parakou et le partage d’expériences avec d’autres Plateformes Pays (PPs) multipartites du réseau Prolinnova International ont permis à Prolinnova–Bénin d’atteindre ses objectifs en 2022. Pour en …
Prolinnova-Benin rapport annuel / annual report 2022 Read More »
The Prolinnova West & Central Africa Subregional Platform is happy to announce its 2022 annual report, which highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and country-platform level. These include the identification, documentation and sharing of local innovations as well as participatory innovation development (PID) processes, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also describes …
Prolinnova network members from Benin and Kenya involved in NaviNut, a project under the Prolinnova umbrella, took part in the Tropentag 2022 (TT22) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 15–18 Sept 2022. The “Tropentag” (German for “Tropical Day”) is an annual international conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture and rural development. TT22 was …
NaviNut partners at Tropentag 2022 conference in Prague Read More »
