Selected PTD / PID readings Farmers research in practice: lessons from the field edited by Laurens van Veldhuizen, Ann Waters-Bayer, Riardo Ramirez, Debra Johnson & John Thompson. Intermediate Technology Publications. 1997. 285 pp. Developing technology with farmers: a trainer’s guide for participatory learning by Laurens van Veldhuizen, Ann Waters-Bayer & Henk de Zeeuw – see …
edited by Bertus Wennink & Willem Heemskerk KIT Bulletin 374. KIT Publishers: Amsterdam. 2006. 112 pp. In its Agricultural Innovation Systems Series, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) has just brought out a new publication on the role of farmer organisations (FOs) in agricultural innovation. It is based on case studies made in Benin, Rwanda and …
The St Ulrich Group (see below) initiated the PTD Circular as an information sheet on recent publications, reports, training experiences and materials. Members of the St Ulrich Group working with ETC Foundation and ILEIA took on the task of compiling and distributing the Circular. Twelve issues were produced between 1994 and 2000, but shortage of funds …
Local innovation in the development of smallholder agriculture: a literature review and case study in the Department of Cochabamba Bolivia by Markus Frank, BSc thesis, University of Kassel / German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture, Witzenhausen. 2012. The first part of the thesis is a review of literature on different approaches to understanding and …
The future of family farming – an important part of the family by Nageeb Ibrahim Bakheit for Agricultures Network website
Brigid Letty (Prolinnova–South Africa) Greetings! My name is Brigid Letty and I work in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security with the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal (KZN) Province of South Africa. I am an animal scientist with a focus on rural development, having worked in the Farming Systems Research Section at the provincial …
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Some results of Prolinnova’s exploratory study into local innovation in the face of climate change were presented by Yohannes GebreMichael (University of Addis Ababa) from Prolinnova-Ethiopia at the recent conference on “The Future of Pastoralism in Africa”, held 21–23 March 2011 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was convened …
Pastoralist Innovation: Prolinnova at Future of Pastoralism conference Read More »
In 2010, UNU-Merit (a research and training centre of United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University (UM), based in southeast Netherlands), with support from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), circulated a call for proposals for the development of case studies of innovation processes in Mozambique, Rwanda and South Africa. The purpose of the initiative …
In November 2010, Ann Waters-Bayer brought Prolinnova perspectives into a 2-day international workshop in London on “Improving the impact of development research through better communication and uptake”. The workshop was organised by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS). The …
PROLINNOVA at international workshop on research communication Read More »
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