The NaviNut project “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands”, which took a transdisciplinary approach to research & development – co-creation of innovations by local people and scientists from different scientific disciplines – has brought out three policy briefs: Strengthening women’s role and agency Mothers’ contribution to …
In June 2025, the NaviNut project “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” finalised its report to the funder: the German Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture (BMEL). NaviNut took a transdisciplinary approach to research & development: co-creation of innovations by local people and scientists from different …
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Two articles from the Prolinnova network were published in the March 2025 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: From research to action: collaborating with agropastoralist women in dryland Africa, in Appropriate Technology 52(1): 36–39, by Patricia Kiprono, Brigitte Kaufmann, Paul Jimmy Kouété & Ann Waters-Bayer, with photos by Jamal Omar Integrating local innovations and multiplying …
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The highly collaborative approach taken by the NaviNut project in Benin and Kenya integrated the knowledge of agropastoralist women about caring for young children with the knowledge of local food processors and community healthworkers and the knowledge of African and German researchers in various disciplines. NaviNut engaged in action research in which the local women …
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This 4-page report provides an overview of activities that took place in the Asian Country Platforms (CPs) in Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines and South India and at regional level in 2024 within the Prolinnova–Asia network. The year was mainly focused on re-activating the Nepal CP and ensuring continuing contact among the CPs in the region …
On behalf of the Prolinnova network, Suman Manandhar from Prolinnova–Nepal was invited to take part in the DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & the Pacific held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 14–16 January 2025. A total of 76 participants from 17 countries in the Asia–Pacific region joined the event. DeSIRA (Development-Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture) is …
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The Prolinnova network celebrates the International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) every year on or about 29 November. In this context, Prolinnova–Senegal organised a forum on agricultural water management on 28 November 2024. This brought together 20 innovators (including 6 women) whose innovations had been selected and validated in Phase 2 of the “Promoting Local Innovation …
On 26–29 November 2024, the 2nd International Scientific Colloquium of Benin’s National University of Agriculture (UNA) focused on “Agroecology and sustainable development in Africa”. A keynote speaker was Djibril Thiam, Coordinator of Prolinnova–Senegal, who presented how Prolinnova supports small-scale farmer experimentation and innovation in agroecology; see his PPT (in French) here. Paul Jimmy, Prolinnova’s Subregional …
On 8–11 October 2024, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) hosted a training workshop in Kisimu to introduce and reinforce concepts participatory innovation development (PID) and its institutionalision to people – some of them new to the Prolinnova network – who are involved in the ELI-FaNS project (Expanding the promotion of Local Innovation for Food Security and healthy Nutrition …
Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) coordinator, attended two events in October and November 2024 in which he presented Prolinnova’s approach and achievements: the Farmer Research Network (FRN) Convening organised by McKnight Foundation and the first National Agroecology Symposium hosted by PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Kenya. The FRN Convening included a visit to local innovators …
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