The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …
Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut Read More »
The Nepal Permaculture Group (NPG) agreed in September 2024 to be the new host organisation of Prolinnova–Nepal. NPG held a virtual meeting of the Country Platform (CP) on 18 October 2024. Prem Bahadur Thapa, Executive Director of NPG and the new coordinator of Prolinnova–Nepal, facilitated the meeting with support from Prolinnova partners – Chesha Wettasinha …
The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …
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Ce catalogue de 95 pages Recueil des processus de développement participatif de l’innovation présente en détail onze processus de développement participatif de l’innovation (DPI) facilités par le réseau Prolinnova-Cameroun en 2023 et 2024. Il présente les résultats des recherches menées conjointement par les paysans et les scientifiques sur les innovations locales dans les domaines de …
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The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …
New Friends of Prolinnova: Suman Manandhar and Violet Kirigua Read More »
The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …
Update on the WCA Subregional Platform In line with the Prolinnova network’s regionalisation agenda, as set out in one of the objectives of the ELI-FaNS project, regionalisation in West and Central Africa (WCA) has made progress. A meeting of Country Platforms (CPs) in the subregion was held on 24 May 2024. A total of 16 …
The IPW 2025 will be hosted by Peermade Development Society / Prolinnova–South India on 10–14 November 2025 in Kochin, Kerala State, India. More info will be posted soon.
This report provides an overview of activities that took place at the country (Cambodia, Nepal, South India, Philippines) and regional level in 2023 within the Prolinnova–Asia regional network. A special focus in 2023 was on re-establishing and activating the Nepal Country Platform. You can find the 4-page report here.
At its July 2024 quarterly meeting, the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) agreed that the one of the newly elected independent members of the POG, Mutizwa Mukute from Zimbabwe, will become the POG co-chair, working together with the continuing co-chair Lisa van Dijk (based in France). Mutizwa knows Prolinnova for the longest time possible: when he …
