During 2017, Prolinnova–Ghana re-organised its National Steering Committee to strengthen the Country Platform’s governance and supported small-scale farmers in selected communities in participatory innovation development (PID) and local innovation processes under the three-year Proli-FaNS project. The host NGO (ACDEP) also organised learning events for farmers at community level as well as for institutional stakeholders and …
In February 2018, the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) welcomed Prolinnova–Peru as a Country Platform (CP) within the international community of practice. Prolinnova activities began in Peru already in 2005, when the regional network Prolinnova–Andes (composed of partners in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador) was created to promote local innovation processes and to learn from each other …
In 2017, the Country Platform in Burkina Faso continued to implement joint projects. It also made progress in reorganising how the platform functions, but efforts are still needed to make the platform more dynamic. See the annual report in French below. La Plateforme Pays du Burkina Faso a continué en 2017 avec la mise en …
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As part of the regionalisation of Prolinnova outlined in the network’s 2016–20 strategy, the focus in 2018 is on strengthening the subregional and regional networks. On 22–23 May 2018, the five Country Platforms (CPs) involved in the Proli-FaNS project will hold their annual sharing-and-learning meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The programme for these two days is …
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The activities of the Country Platform (CP) in Burkina Faso in 2016 are part of the implementation of two major projects: FaReNe (Strengthening Farmer-led Research Networks in the Sahel) and Proli-FaNS (Promoting Local Innovation in Food and Nutrition Security). The Burkina Faso partners have continued to implement the FaReNe project, which is hosted by the …
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In 2017, the Farmer-Led Innovators Association of Kenya (FALIA) worked together with the Prolinnova partner organisation A Growing Culture (AGC) to document farmer innovations in Kisumu in Western Kenya. FALIA and AGC identified 20 promising innovations addressing a range of issues from biodiversity preservation and economic empowerment to gender equality and improved food security. Their …
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In 2016, Prolinnova–Ghana engaged in sharing and learning from field activities of network institutions and NGOs to promote local innovation and Participatory Innovation Development (PID), joint planning and starting up the project “Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FANS), preparing to host IPW 2017, and meetings of the National Steering Committee and Working …
In its 2016–20 strategy, the Prolinnova network decided to create regional and subregional platforms of country-level multistakeholder networks (“Country Platforms”). The regional platform in West & Central Africa (WCA) includes the Country Platforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali and Senegal and is open to other Prolinnova Country Platforms that may become active again, …
]]> International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) was celebrated in Nepal on 29 November 2017 with a seminar on farmer innovation. Prolinnova–Nepal organised the event together with the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Tribhuvan University, Rarahil Memorial School, Creative Academy and CENEED (Center for Nepal Environmental & Educational Development). ]]> Mayor of Kirtipur Municipality, Ramesh …
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Staff members of the Institute of Science and Technology (IOST) at Tribhuvan University and affiliated campuses joined a training programme on local innovation and farmer-led joint research, thanks to funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nuffic (Dutch organisation for internationalisation of higher education). The training began with a 6-day residential workshop in …
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