As part of PELUM South Africa’s Food Sovereignty Indaba (important meeting) on 20-21 June 2008 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, to bring together producers, consumers, retailers, chefs, NGOs, government and other stakeholders to explore ways to make SA’s food and agriculture system more sustainable, PELUM and Prolinnova-SA co-hosted a Good Practice Exhibition “Sustainable Technologies and Processes for Improved Livelihoods”.
Earlier this month, the Rockefeller Foundation (one of Prolinnova’s core donors) confirmed its interest in supporting a second phase of Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISF) by Prolinnova. These pilots aim at finding best ways to make resources available directly to farmers to experiment and innovate, where needed jointly with support agencies and researchers. Initial pilots in five countries (Cambodia, Ethiopia, …
PID in water management in Tigray, Ethiopia One of the local innovations identified by the Northern Typical Highlands platform of Prolinnova–Ethiopia is an intricate system of harvesting water from waterlogged land so as to allow cultivation in the long wet season, coupled with storage of this harvested water to use for supplementary irrigation in the …
Prolinnova Working Paper #17 – PID in water management Read More »
The 2008 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW), held in Tamale, Ghana, brought together 33 advocates of participatory innovation development (PID) from 22 countries including farmers, NGOs, and staff of government ministries and extension agencies, research organizations and universities. The participants discussed experiences in the various countries with PID, formulated lessons learnt and mapped out strategies …
Prolinnova country programmes are continuing their efforts to explore opportunities of FLD to support participatory innovation development. Results of the activities will be published on this page. In the meantime, information about ongoing FLD pilots and projects can be obtained from the FLD contact person at Prolinnova. FLD pilot Prolinnova Ethiopia (Tigray) View proposal (Word document; size : …
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More information about ongoing and upcoming activities of the FLD partnership can be found in the following overview. View overview (Word document; size : 60 KB). Contact person at PELUM is Stella Lutalo (PELUM-Uganda) / Email: Pelumuganda@utlonline.co.ugContact person at Oxfam Novib is Nicole Metz / Email: nicole.metz@oxfamnovib.nl
South Africa: Doing gender in an indigenous fruit processing project in South Africa: (PDF 2440 KB) Ethiopia: Gender analysis in PID: the case of enset bacterial wilt in Amaro Special Woreda, Southern Ethiopia (PDF 689 KB) Niger: Joint experimentation of women innovation of fish smoking in Banda, Niger (PDF 462 KB) Nepal: Gender aspects in …
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A subgroup of Country Programmes within Prolinnova jointly developed ideas for learning and action related to Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in the face of HIV/AIDS. In January 2008, the HAPID (HIV/AIDS and PID) subproject was launched. The initial two years are funded by the Netherlands Directorate for International Cooperation (DGIS) under the Community-Led Natural Resource …
Innovation by communities confronting HIV/AIDS: new sub-project Read More »
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