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Promoting women’s innovation in feeding children in Benin & Kenya

The project NaviNut “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” held its start-up workshop in early December 2020. It takes a transdisciplinary research approach: co-creating knowledge across different scientific disciplines and societal stakeholders. The German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) coordinates the work together with …

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LISF presented at SULCI-FaNS annual workshop

For partners in the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling up Local Innovation in Food and Nutrition Security) workshop in November 2020, Ann Waters-Bayer from the International Support Team presented experiences with Local Innovation Support Facilities/Funds (LISFs) made in previous years within the Prolinnova community of practice (CoP). SULCI-FaNS partners, some of which are new to the CoP, plan …

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Prolinnova–Kenya celebrates Farmer Innovation Fair

Prolinnova–Kenya (PK), in collaboration with World Neighbors and Inades Formation Kenya, celebrated a Farmer innovation Fair that was hosted by the Makueni Local Steering Committee on 23 February 2019 at Kasikeu Market. The event was graced by 192 participants and seven organisations, both governmental and non-governmental. Under the day’s theme, “Creating opportunities through farmer-led innovations”, …

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International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) celebrated in Nepal

International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) was celebrated in Nepal on 29 November 2020 using the Zoom platform. The virtual event was organised by the Institute for Social and Environmental Research–Nepal with sponsorship from Interscaff Safety Training Solution Pvt Ltd. As invited speaker, Mr Hari Bahadur KC, Joint Secretary in Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock …

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Deuxième formation DPI au Bénin / Second PID training in Benin

En octobre 2020, le deuxième atelier sur le développement participatif d’innovation (DPI) s’est tenu virtuellement, comme le premier, en raison de la situation de COVID-19. C’était dans le cadre du projet “Renforcement de capacités des enseignants des lycées agricoles pour soutenir l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle“, financé par …

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Prolinnova–Kenya in Horn of Africa & Sahel Knowledge Share Fair

Vincent Mariadho, PK coordinator, presenting Joe Ouko’s locally formulated dairy goat meal Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) joined other organisations around the world to share its knowledge and approach in an online event on 19–23 October 2020. The virtual Horn of Africa & Sahel Knowledge Share Fair under the theme of “Promoting innovation to build resilience against climate …

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Guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development

In 2017–18, Chesha Wettasinha from the International Support Team (IST), based at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), worked together with Mona Dhamankar, also from KIT, in developing guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development (GALID). This initiative was supported by FAO and supervised by Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer, Social Policies and Rural Institutions …

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Progress in the Ethnovet Project Oct 2019–Mar 2020

The 3-year project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Livestock Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” (Ethnovet) is being implemented in northern Ghana with funds from Misereor (Germany). The project coordinator Foster Awuni in ACDEP (Association of Church-based Development Projects) reports on the first half-year of partnership with local ethnovet practitioners, the Animal Research Institute of the …

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