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Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research and Development edited by Ian Scoones and John Thompson, with foreword by Robert Chamberspublished by Practical Action, London Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world’s most pressing issues – climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years …

Announcing two new books on farmer-first innovation Read More »

As of 1 February 2009, a new country-level initiative has become part of the Prolinnova Community of Practice: Prolinnova–Nigeria. In late October 2007, the International Secretariat in the Netherlands received an expression of interest from a group of people from different governmental and non-governmental organisations in northern Nigeria to launch such an initiative. They proposed …

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An invited paper on Promoting gender equality and empowering women through livestock (PDF file: 1.29MB), co-authored by Ann Waters-Bayer and Brigid Letty, was presented by Ann at a symposium on The Role of Livestock in Developing Communities. This symposium, organised by the University of the Free State (UFS) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), …

World Conference on Animal Production, Nov 2008, Cape Town, South Africa Read More »

4-7 May 2009 • Kathmandu, Nepal An international symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on southern and eastern Asia, was held on 4–7 May 2009 in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture)–Asia, ICIMOD (International Centre for integrated Mountain Development) and Prolinnova (Promoting …

Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium – First call for abstracts Read More »