Participatory Innovation Development [PID] Training Manual (PROFIEET Ethiopia)
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South African extensionists give recognition to farmer innovations
On 12 May 2005, 70 conference delegates recognised the significance of farmers’ social and technical innovations by awarding Roberta Burgess and Tim Hart (both Core Team members of the South African Prolinnova network) the prize for best scientific paper at the 39th Annual Conference of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension, held in Bloemfontein. …
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Catalogue of local farmer innovations in South Africa
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Other important past achievements and events
In March 2003, IIRR, LBL (Swiss Centre for Agricultural Extension) and ETC – with funds from SDC (Swiss Development Cooperation) – compiled a CD-ROM on participatory innovation development. In October 2002, IIRR published Participatory Technology Development for Agricultural Improvement: Challenges for Institutional Integration, based on African, Asian and Latin American cases analysed in the …
Country Report 2004
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2004 Annual Report
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2004 Mid-year Report
Ethiopia Country Platform Organisation of ProlinnovaInternational Workshop The Steering Committee of PROFIEET (Promoting Local Innovation and Experimentation in Ethiopia) and the ProlinnovaInternational Support Team organised the first international workshop and launching of Prolinnovain Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia, in the second week of March. Agri-Service Ethiopia (ASE), the secretariat of the PROFIEET platform, handled all local arrangements, …
Inventory of institutions engaged in farmer innovation and participatory research approaches in Ethiopia
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2004 Mid-year Report
Ghana Country Platform This overview includes the activities of the three zones (Southern, Middle-Belt and Northern). National Co-ordinating Committee The nine-member National Co-ordinating Committee (NCC) was inaugurated, with the Director of Agricultural Extension of MOFA, Mr. A. A. Osei-Frimpong, as Chairman. The NCC deliberated on the Terms of Reference of the Committee as well as …
September 2004 National Workshop
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