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Another opportunity for institutionalising PID in Limpopo Province

11. March 2025 11. March 2025 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events, South Africa

A farmer innovation day held in Limpopo Province at Mashite village in Ga-Mphahlele, Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality. The event was facilitated by the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), University of Limpopo (UL), University of Venda (UNIVEN) and the South African branch of the Eastern and Southern Africa small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF SA) on …

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Prolinnova represented at FAO ATIO writeshop in the Netherlands

19. February 2025 22. July 2025 / News & Events

Martha Opondo from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) represented the international Prolinnova network virtually at FAO’s Agrifood Systems Technology and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) writeshop held in Soesterberg, Netherlands, on 7-9 October 2024. The other participants were from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Wageningen University, Universidad de Talca, International Food Policy Research …

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Prolinnova represented at GIIST Conference in Switzerland, Sept 2024

18. December 2024 18. December 2024 / News & Events

Brigid Letty, a member of the Prolinnova International Support Team, was invited to attend a small conference at the University of Basel in Switzerland that took place from 25 to 27 September 2025. The “Grassroots Innovations as Incubators for Sustainability Transitions” (GIIST) Conference was organised by the research project titled “Ecovillages as Incubators for Sustainability …

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Article from the Prolinnova Limpopo Task Team on social innovation

6. August 2024 3. November 2024 / News & Events, South Africa

The Prolinnova Limpopo Task Team has documented social innovation associated with the Tjiane Drop-In Centre, which can be accessed here.

Articles from Benin & Ghana in June 2024 issue of Appropriate Technology

22. July 2024 23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

Two articles were published in June 2024 in the Prolinnova section of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol 51, No. 2): Action funds stimulate mutual learning about child nutrition in Benin by Paul Jimmy, Honorat Edja, Brigitte Kaufmann & Ann Waters-Bayer Ghanaian experience in helping women farmers improve sales of a local innovation by Joseph Nchor …

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Opportunity for institutionalisation

8. July 2024 9. July 2024 / South Africa

The Limpopo Task Team made good use of a number of events towards institutionalising the PID approach within target organisations. A report documenting the process is available here.

PID workshop in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

25. June 2024 26. June 2024 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Mozambique Country Platform, News & Events, South Africa

Through the ELI-FaNS project, a workshop on participatory innovation development (PID) was held at the African Enterprise Conference Centre in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province on 10-13 June 2024. The objective of the workshop was to build a common understanding of key concepts and involved participants from Limpopo and KZN. Joe Nchor, the ELI-FaNS project …

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African Partners Workshop 2024, Nairobi

17. April 2024 23. April 2024 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, PID in water management, News & Events

The African Partners Workshop (AfPW) took place in Nairobi, Kenya, directly after the International Farmer Innovation Fair and Conference. It was a two-day event (11–12 April 2024) with a very full programme that allowed for sharing and discussion of experiences from two of the Misereor-funded projects that are currently being implemented, as well as from …

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Latest articles in Appropriate Technology Magazine

17. April 2024 7. May 2024 / Resources, Uganda Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform, South Africa

In the March 2024 edition of the Appropriate Technology magazine, three articles submitted by Prolinnova Country Platforms were published: An article about joint experimentation related to household poultry that has been initiated in South Africa An article about a national farmers day in Ghana where farmer innovators received awards An article from Uganda about how …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference in Nairobi

17. April 2024 26. November 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

On 8–10 April 2024, farmer innovators from 11 African countries coming together in person – and were joined online by farmer innovators from Asia – to share their innovations at the Kilimo Grand Resort in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was funded by the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation and was coordinated by …

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