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Experiences of students in 2016

Avery Moyle’s visit to Prolinnova Cambodia   Hunter Hewlett’s visit to Prolinnova Cambodia   Maggie Gratz’s visit to Prolinnova Cambodia   Samuel Campbell’s visit to Prolinnova Senegal   Taylor Barry’s visit to Prolinnova Senegal   Tyler Berkeley’s visit to Prolinnova Senegal 

Articles by students in 2016

Prolinnova Cambodia paving the way for agricultural innovation:Local farmers’ markets are its latest initiative to support organic farmers in CambodiaBy AVERY MOYLER, MAGGIE GRATZ, and HUNTER HEWLETTStudent researchers from the University of Virginia, USA   Co-design as a strategy for implementing farmers’ ideas for community-focused green energy projects: experiences of a pilot project in EthiopiaBy …

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Programa de Desarrollo Integral Interdisciplinario (PRODII) / Interdisciplinary Integrated Development Programme – Félix Vale Vega – director@prodii.org Germán Jarro, Fundacion Agrecol Andes – german.jarro@agrecolandes.org

ABOUT THE BOLIVIA COUNTRY PLATFORM

In 2005, the regional network Prolinnova–Andes (Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador) was created with the aims of promoting farmer innovation processes and exchanging experiences in participatory innovation development (PID). Since then, regional- and national-level activities to promote local innovation were carried out, i.e., two regional workshops (in 2005 and 2008), Field Day for Local Innovators in …

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Two events organised by Prolinnova–Nepal in August 2016

The Prolinnova–Nepal Country Platform with the assistance of researchers and staff of the Natural History Museum (NHM), Tribhuvan University, organised a workshop on Grant Writing Development for Youth on 3–4 August 2016 and a seminar on Weed Science: Status and Future Directions on 5 August 2016. These events were supported by the Farmer-To-Farmer Program of …

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Farmer innovators’ views on capacity to innovate presented at IFSA symposium

The 12th European IFSA (International Farming Systems Association) Symposium was hosted by the Harper Adams University in Newport, UK, on 12-15 July 2016 on the theme “Social and technological transformation of farming systems: diverging and converging pathways”. Ann Waters-Bayer of Prolinnova co-organised one of the workshops on “Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for learning and innovation”. This workshop …

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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–Philippines update 2015

Prolinnova-Philippines is a relatively “young” Country Platform which does not have any dedicated Prolinnova funding but is nevertheless active in promoting local innovation. Its report on activities in 2015 can be found here (PDF file; 337 KB).

Archives: Introduction

In 2011, the Prolinnova network agreed that all Country Platforms (CPs) would meet certain minimum commitments in terms of activities and outputs, even without specific funding for them (Guidelines #8 under www.prolinnova.net/content/prolinnova-guidelines).  The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) declares those CPs that are not meeting these minimum commitments to be temporarily “inactive”. In recognition of the …

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PID training report and feedback session

A training programme, conducted in collaboration with KIT, has been funded by Nuffic and has involved two workshops and a period of practical application of the principles covered in the workshops. The training programme was requested by Mahlathini Development Foundation and was supported by Institute of Natural Resources NPC. PID Training Report Workshop  PID Feedback Session …

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