Opportunity for institutionalisation
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
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 …
African Partners Workshop 2024, Nairobi
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 …
Latest articles in Appropriate Technology Magazine
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
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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Prolinnova joins the Agroecology Coalition!
The Agroecology Coalition was set up in 2023 with the purpose of accelerating the transformation of food systems through agroecology. Oliver Oliveros (o.oliveros@agroecology-coalition.org), long-time Friend of Prolinnova, is Coordinator of the Agroecology Coalition and head of the Coalition Secretariat. The Coalition has a number of functions including the co-creation and exchange of knowledge, seeking to …
Global Report for 2021-2022
We are pleased to share with you the Global Prolinnova Report for 2021-2022, which provides an overview of the network’s activities and achievements. The report can be found at the following link: https://prolinnova.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Global-Prolinnova-Report-2011_2022-v4.pdf
2023 International Partners Workshop held in South Africa: report
On 22 – 27 October 2023, Prolinnova’s International Partners Workshop was held in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The workshop report as well as a pdf file containing all the presentations are now available: Workshop report Compilation of presentations
South–South mentoring South Africa–Nepal
The Prolinnova network has long given great value to mutual learning between partners in different countries and continents – something that the Internet has made much easier. An example was the South–South mentoring that took place by Zoom in late June 2023: a partner in Nepal invited a partner in South Africa to share experiences …
ELI-FaNS inception workshop, 20-24 Feb 2023, Accra
The inception workshop for the new 3-year project (Jan 2023 – Dec 2025) funded by Misereor “Expanding the promotion of local innovation for food security and healthy nutrition to strengthen resilience, with a focus on women” (ELI-FaNS) took place in Accra on 20-24 February 2023. Representatives of the five Country Platforms involved in on-the-ground activities …
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