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A Growing Culture & Prolinnova showcase local innovations

The Prolinnova network has entered into a partnership with A Growing Culture (AGC) to develop a knowledge base for showcasing and making accessible local innovations and farmer-led documentation. The partners come together around a shared vision to strengthen the channels for exchanging innovations and farmer-led documentation in our communities and beyond. The knowledge base is …

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New Prolinnova initiative in Africa to enhance food & nutrition security

On 14–18 Nov 2016, the Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security (Proli–FaNS) project was launched with a meeting of all partners in Accra, Ghana. Proli-FaNS is a 3-year project supported by Misereor / Katholische Zentralstelle e.V. (Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid) (KZE, Germany) through a grant of the “One World No Hunger” …

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Prolinnova-Uganda annual report 2015

This report of presents highlights of the activities of the Prolinnova–Uganda Country Platform in the period January–December 2015. These included the identification of still more farmer innovations, multistakeholder learning and exchange on local innovation and participatory innovation development (PID), capacity building in PID and climate-change adaptation, and mainstreaming PID within Ugandan institutions concerned with agricultural …

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Prolinnova–Kenya CLIC–SR report Jan–May 2016

The Prolinnova-Kenya report on CLIC–SR (Combining Local Innovation Capacity with Scientific Research – Strengthening Community Resilience to Change) outlines the objectives and achievements within the budget-neutral extension period of this project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Prolinnova-Uganda annual report 2014

The 2014 report focuses on the main activities being carried out by the network in Uganda as part of the Eastern African project on Strengthening Community Resilience to Change – Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research (CLIC-SR), funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Prolinnova strategy 2016–20

In 2015–16, a small team from the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), Country Platforms (CPs) and the International Support Team (IST) facilitated discussion within the network on the future direction and activities of Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management). On the basis of these discussions, it drafted the Prolinnova strategy …

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2016 International Partners Workshop in Senegal 16-20 May

Photo: Taylor Barry The 2016 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) was hosted by Prolinnova/PROFEIS–Senegal, coordinated by Agrecol-Afrique, in the week of 16–20 May 2016 in Thiès, Senegal. For the workshop programme and list of participants, click here. The 18-minute video made by Thiès TV about the IPW2016 – reporting on participants from 22 countries who …

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Report on Prolinnova–Ethiopia activities in 2014–15

A 16-page report summarising the main activities of Prolinnova–Ethiopia in the years 2014 and 2015, focused primarily on the work under the CLIC–SR (Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research) project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in Tigray and Amhara Regions.

Prolinnova-Kenya brief report on activities in 2014 and 2015

Prolinnova-Kenya (PK) focused most of its activities in 2014 and 2015 in Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research – Enhancing Community Resilience to Change (CLIC-SR), a regional programme in Eastern Africa funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. PK’s CLIC-SR work is being carried out in the dryland areas Machakos and Baringo. PK is also engaged in information sharing and policy …

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Stocktaking of Prolinnova presented at GCARD3

Over a decade of experience of promoting farmer-led innovation through the Prolinnova network was showcased at the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) on 6–8 April 2016 in Johannesburg. The event was organised by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and hosted by the South African Government and the Agricultural Research …

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