Amanuel Assefa from AgriService Ethiopia (ASE), the NGO that is coordinating PROFIEET (PROmoting Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in EThiopia), addressed the GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2003. He described the process of reviewing Ethiopian experiences in Farmer Participatory Research and Participatory Technology Development at the national PROFIEET workshop, held in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, in August 2003, and the action plan that was developed at the workshop. He stressed the importance of the international learning platform Prolinnova. for the work of PROFIEET, and announced the news of Netherlands support to Prolinnova. His paper and Powerpoint presentation are also on the GFAR website (www.egfar.org).
