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Local innovation in the development of smallholder agriculture: a literature review and case study in the Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia

Markus Frank, BSc thesisUniversity of Kassel / German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical AgricultureWitzenhausen, Germany. 2012(PDF file; size : 1.8 MB) The first part reviews literature on different approaches to understanding and supporting local innovation, and situates local innovation processes and concepts in the context of agricultural innovation models. The case study in the second part …

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Assessing the impact of grassroots innovation in agriculture

by Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & Maxwell Mudhara, Prolinnova-SA; presented at GLOBELICS International Conference, 15-17 Nov 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina (GLOBELICS:  Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation & Competence Building Systems)PDF File; size: 583 KB link to news and events page:http://www.prolinnova.net/category/categories/news-events

Strengthening local resilience to climate change: the role of grassroots adaptation and PID

Prolinnova contribution to study day on strengthen local resilience to climate change On 25 January 2012, Laurens van Veldhuizen from the Prolinnova International Secretariat attended a study day on community-based adaptation to climate change organised  by Germany-based Misereor. In his presentation, he shared the findings of the initial work on local innovation and climate-change adaptation undertaken by partners in …

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