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Training in Benin on social entrepreneurship based on local innovation / Formation sur l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale

3. November 2022 / Integrating PID into education, Benin Country Platform

Voir la traduction française ci-dessous The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of the Netherlands Organisation for Internationalisation of Education (Nuffic) is supporting tailor-made training to strengthen the capacity of teachers in agricultural technical colleges in North Benin to support social entrepreneurship based on local innovation for food and nutrition security. This project is a collaborative effort …

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Progress in SULCI-FaNS project in first half-year / Avancement du projet au premier semestre

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

Traduction française ci-dessous This progress report describes activities and outputs achieved in the first half-year (1 October 2019–31 March 2020) of the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project. At Country Platform (CP) level, these included: inception workshop; project stakeholder orientation in each of the four CPs involved in …

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Rapport annuel 2019 / Annual report 2019

24. July 2022 / Burkina Faso Country Platform

Au cours de l’année 2019, la Plateforme Pays (PP) du Burkina Faso a continué à renforcer son fonctionnement à travers les organes de gouvernance mis en place au cours de l’année précédente. La PP a poursuivi également la mise en œuvre des projets Proli-FaNS (Promouvoir l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle) et FaReNe …

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Prolinnova multi-CP capacity strengthening in Horn of Africa

24. July 2022 / News & Events

A new Prolinnova project “From despair to hope – promoting women’s and youth innovation for food and nutrition security and community resilience in Sudan and South Sudan” was developed jointly by Chesha Wettasinha, International Support Team (IST) member based in KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands), Fetien Abay, long-time Prolinnova partner in Mekelle University in northern …

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Prolinnova-Tanzania annual report 2019

24. July 2022 / Tanzania Country Platform

The national coordinator of the Country Platform (CP) in Tanzania, Zacharia Malley, reports briefly on CP activities in 2019, including Prolinnova-related activities of member organisations focused on farmer-managed seed systems. The 3-page annual report can be found here.

Farmer innovator Joe Ouko featured in webinar “Hunger for Justice”

30. October 2022 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

    Photo by Laurens van Veldhuizen            Photo by Chesha Wettasinha Joe Ouko, a farmer innovator in Kenya and a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), was a panelist in a webinar hosted by A Growing Culture (AGC). This was one in a webinar series on the theme “Hunger for Justice”. Joe shared his …

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Brigid Letty from South Africa joins Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG)

24. July 2022 / News & Events

Brigid Letty is a South African agricultural development specialist and principle scientist with the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. She has a BSc in Agriculture (animal science), an MSc in range and forage science and a PhD in agroforestry systems from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Before joining INR in 2003, she worked for six …

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Prolinnova Uganda’s 2019 annual report

24. July 2022 / Uganda Country Platform

The 2019 report of the Prolinnova–Uganda Country Platform (CP) presents its key achievements, challenges and perspectives. Although the CP is constrained in terms of external funding, interactions between the members and key stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Uganda continue through information exchange and networking, as well as participation in activities led by CP …

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New Subregional Coordinator in Eastern & Southern Africa

31. January 2023 / Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

Jacob Barasa Wanyama has been selected as the new Prolinnova Subregional Coordinator (SRC) in Eastern & Southern Africa (ESA). He took over from Brigid Letty from South Africa on 1 June 2020; Brigid mentored him throughout the month of June. He is coordinating the subregional activities of the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Ethiopia, Kenya, …

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