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Assessing impact of grassroots innovation: Prolinnova–SA paper at GLOBELICS

Brigid Letty from the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in South Africa, a member of Prolinnova-South Africa, attended the GLOBELICS (Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems)Conference in Argentina in November 2011. She presented a paper on “Assessing the impact of grassroots innovation in agriculture” (Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & …

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Strengthening multistakeholder partnerships in Tanzania

Based on six years of experience in facilitating the Prolinnova-Tanzania platform, the coordinating organisation PELUM Tanzania compiled contributions of partners, including farmer innovators, into a booklet entitled Strengthening multistakeholder partnerships: experiences from Prolinnova-Tanzania. The work was co-funded by EED (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst), Germany, and the Dutch Government through DGIS and the International Prolinnova Secretariat at ETC …

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Prolinnova’s work on film in English & French / Travail de Prolinnova sur film en anglais et français

In March 2011, four films featuring Prolinnova’s work were launched at the International Partners Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Three were based on work of the country networks in Cambodia, Niger & South Africa; the fourth is an overview of the global network. The films were made in partnership with TVEAP, a not-for-profit media …

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Documenting farmers’ innovation

Documenting farmer innovation creates a new image of agricultural producers. In the paper “communicating farmers’ knowledge”, Awa Faly Ba of IIED Afrique in Senegal, the NGO that support PROFEIS activities in West Africa, explains how PROFES and AGRIDAPE – the Frnech magazine on low-external-input and sustainable agriculture (LEISA) – have collaborated to create and share important messages about local …

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Communicating local knowledge and innovation

Documenting farmer innovation creates a new image of agricultural producers. In the paper “Communicating farmers’ knowledge”, Awa Faly Ba of IIED Afrique, the NGO that supports PROFEIS activities in West Africa, explains how PROFEIS and AGRIDAPE have collaborated to create and share important messages about local creativity in improving smallholder agriculture. AGRIDAPE is the French magazine on low-external-input and sustainable …

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Prolinnova-Ghana National Workshop successfully completed

Prolinnova’s present and future partners in Ghana met on 7–11 September 2003 in Koforidua, Southern Ghana, to discuss and plan for a Prolinnova multi-stakeholder programme in the country. The national workshop built on the results of three zonal workshops that were held in Tamale for the Northern Zone, Kumasi for the Middle Belt and Accra …

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