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NGO Statement at GCARD 2010!

NGO participants in the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), 28-31 March 2010, in Montpellier, France, made a statement about the process and content of the consultations and pointed out some gaps. Among other issues, it called for inclusion of farmer organisations and NGOs in governance of agricultural research and development at international, …

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Prolinnova International Partners Workshop 2010

From 22-27 March, the annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) will take place in Wageningen, The Netherlands. This year’s IPW is organized by the Prolinnova international secretariat. The venue is Hotel Nol in’t Bosch (http://www.nolintbosch.nl/), a small hotel nicely situated in the forests of Wageningen.  The IPW provides an opportunity for the Country Platforms, the …

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News from Prolinnova-Niger programme

A new NGO partner called ‘Contribution au Développement Local Durable’ (CDLD) has joined recently Prolinnova-Niger. A farmer innovator day was held in Takalahia in October 2009. Participants were farmer innovators from Boumba, Garin Bourtou and Takalahia and members of the Union of farmer innovators who held its first meeting extended to Head of the village …

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Prolinnova-Kenya hosted PID-ToF Refresher Course on 17-22 August 2009

As part of the ETC’s PSO-supported Learn Work Trajectory, a PID-ToF refresher course was organized on 17-22 August 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. It was hosted by Prolinnova-Kenya with World Neighbours (WN), Kenya Network for Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies (KENDAT) and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as members of the Workshop Steering Committee. The event was …

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Prolinnova curriculum development activities, Uganda, March 2009

An international Prolinnova workshop on integrating the participatory innovation development (PID) approach into university curricula was held together with a training workshop in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) on 3–11 March 2009 at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The report on the two workshops, compiled by Sabina Di Prima from the Centre for International Cooperation (CIS) …

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