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Articles in “Appropriate Technology” on local innovation in Kenya & Senegal

30. October 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

Two articles about Prolinnova work in Eastern Africa and in West Africa were published in the March 2022 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: “Learning from Covid-19 to improve food and nutrition security”, about how Covid-19 has drawn attention to the importance of home-grown solutions to deal with effects of the pandemic, and thus increased also recognition …

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GFAR blog on woman innovator in Kenya

24. July 2022 / Kenya Country Platform

    The GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation) has posted a blog Local farmer innovation: an entry point for farmer-led joint research written by Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya Coordinator, about an innovation by the small-scale Kenyan farmer Rebecca Auma Dero. She modified and improved an introduced technology to make her own sack-garden irrigation kit …

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2021 report on Prolinnova activities in Kenya

24. July 2022 / Kenya Country Platform

The 2021 annual report from Prolinnova–Kenya highlights the major activities undertaken in the two action-learning sites in Kisumu (Kisumu West and Nyakach Sub-Counties) and Makueni (Mukaa Sub-County) primarily within the SULCI-FaNS project and various activities at national level. The report includes a detailed account of the visit to Kenya made by members of Prolinnova–Sudan together …

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Year 2 report on Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events

The second year of the 3-year Misereor-funded project Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS) was completed in September 2021. Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya continue to strengthen the innovation capacities of small-scale farmers, especially women and women’s groups, to improve food and nutrition …

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SULCI-FaNS in Ghana: Year 2 report

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Ghana Country Platform

  Prolinnova–Ghana is involved in the 3-year Misereor-funded project Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS). The second year of this project was completed in September 2021. The coordinator of the project work in Ghana, Ms Margaret Kyiu, reports on Year 2 activities to strengthen the innovation capacities of small-scale …

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Progress in Year 2 of Ethnovet Project in Ghana

25. July 2022 / Ethnovet Project

The Misereor-funded Ethnovet Project – Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Animal Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana – has completed its second of three years of operation (2019–22). This second annual progress report (Oct 2020 – Sept 2021) describes the activities implemented and outputs achieved in Year 2. These included: literature review on ethnobotanicals and phytochemical …

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Kenyan farmer innovator featured in “Mother Earth News”

16. January 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

An article by Meredith Leigh in the magazine Mother Earth News “Animals on the farm: a holistic approach” (March 2021) describes how farmers around the world are developing innovative ways of integrating livestock into farming operations. One of the main examples is the feed for dairy goats developed by the Kenyan small-scale farmer Joe Ouko …

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Appropriate Technology magazine features Cameroonian Farmer Innovation Fair

24. July 2022 / Farmer Innovation Fair, Cameroon, News & Events

The September 2021 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol. 48, No. 3) brings a 2-page article “First innovation fair celebrates farmer ingenuity in Cameroon” written by Abdel-Karim Ali Mahamane, Prolinnova’s Subregional Coordinator in West & Central Afrca, and Jean-Bosco Etoa, Prolinnova-Cameroon coordinator. The article highlights the awards given during the fair to young people …

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2021 quarterly reports on Proli-GEAFaSa project

19. December 2022 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform

Rapports trimestriels sur le projet Proli-GEAFaSa 2021 Ces rapports portent sur les activités qui ont été mise en oeuvre au cours des trois premiers trimestres de l’Année 2 du projet de 3 ans « Promotion de l’Innovation Locale dans la Gestion de l’Eau en Agriculture Familiale au Sahel » (Proli-GEAFaSa), qui a démarré en janvier …

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SULCI-FaNS partners meeting 16–18 Nov 2021 / Réunion des partenaires SULCI-FaNS 16–18 nov 2021

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS

Because of the continuation of the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual meeting of partners in the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project in 2021 was held online, like the 2020 meeting. The main aims of the workshop (16–18 November) were: To review progress, achievements & lessons learnt in the …

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