Ce rapport du projet de Promotion de l’innovation locale en Gestion de l’Eau dans l’Agriculture Familiale au Sahel (Proli-GEAFaSa) a pour but de partager sur l’avancement de la mise en œuvre des activités au cours de la première année. Ce projet financé par Misereor vise à améliorer la gestion de l’eau en agriculture familiale au …
Year 1 of the 3-year Misereor-funded project Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS) was completed in September 2020. Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya are engaged in strengthening the innovation capacities of small-scale farmers, particularly women and women’s groups, to improve food and nutrition …
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GLOBAL FARMER INNOVATION FAIR 2021 A VIRTUAL EVENT CELEBRATING THE LOCAL CREATIVITY OF SMALL-SCALE FARMERS HOSTED BY PROLINNOVA + A GROWING CULTURE 10 – 11 FEBRUARY 2021 HERE IS THE SUMMARY BROCHURE WITH THE VIDEOS FROM THE EVENT! On 10–11 February 2021, Prolinnova and A Growing Culture (AGC) celebrated small-scale family farmers through the …
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The coordinator of Prolinnova–Kenya, Vincent Mariadho, reports on the Country Platform’s activities in 2020, focused primarily on implementation of the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project, including documentation and global sharing of experiences in farmer-led participatory innovation. You can find the report here.
Le coordinateur de Prolinnova-Sénégal a présenté les activités de la plateforme nationale au cours de l’année écoulée lors de l’atelier virtuel des partenaires africains du 26 au 28 octobre 2020. La présentation du PPT se trouve ici et le rapport (7 pages) ici. The coordinator of Prolinnova–Senegal presented the national platform’s activities during the past …
The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crops Research Program made a one-page “Research to Impacts Map” to describe the achievements of the FaReNe project in the first phase (2015–19). It summarises the project as follows: “The project aims to strengthen and support farmer-led research networks in which smallholders lead joint experimentation for agroecological intensification (AEI) building on …
As part of the regionalisation process within the Prolinnova network, two subregional coordinators (SRCs) were appointed part-time in Africa, with funding through the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security) project. In the Eastern & Southern Africa subregion, Jacob Wanyama started work as the new SRC in June 2020, taking …
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Photo: Studio Mass, Benin Troisième formation DPI au Bénin Un troisième atelier virtuel dans le cadre du programme de formation sur mesure sur l’innovation locale et le développement participatif de l’innovation (IL/ DPI) s’est tenu à Parakou, au Bénin, le 17 décembre 2020. Cet événement était le suivant d’une série d’activités du projet de formation …
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Fetien Abay, a long-time member of the Prolinnova network, has just published a chapter in a new book Women in precision agriculture: technological breakthroughs, challenges and aspiration for a prosperous and sustainable future (edited by Takoi Khemais Hamrita) issued in 2021 by Springer Nature Switzerland. The chapter “Women farmer–breeder partnerships in plant breeding, seed and …
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Farmer-to-farmer sharing about local experimentation with palm tree seeds (Photo: Amina Bwebeyuou) Annonce de la Foire d’Innovation Paysanne au Cameroun Prolinnova-Cameroun organise une Foire de l’Innovation Paysanne au Cameroun (FIPAC) à Yaoundé du 27 au 29 mai 2021. Elle rassemblera les acteurs de la Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (RAD) afin de découvrir la promotion …
