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PID, LISF & farmer-network experiences in agroecological intensification in Mali

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

The Farmer-led Research Network (FaReNe) project is a joint project of Prolinnova partners in Burkina Faso and Mali with financial support from the McKnight Foundation and technical support from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), host of the Prolinnova international secretariat. It looks at how best to organise and use farmer-led innovation approaches, such as Participatory …

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2020 quarterly reports on Proli-GEAFaSa project

19. December 2022 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform

Rapports trimestriels sur le projet Proli-GEAFaSa 2020 Ces rapports portent sur les activités qui ont été mise en oeuvre au cours des trois premiers trimestres de l’Année 1 du projet de 3 ans « Promotion de l’Innovation Locale dans la Gestion de l’Eau en Agriculture Familiale au Sahel » (Proli-GEAFaSa), qui a démarré en janvier …

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Asia & Pacific Regional Platform

13. January 2025 / Asia & Pacific

In its 2016–20 strategy, the Prolinnova network decided to create regional and subregional platforms of country-level multistakeholder networks (“Country Platforms”/CPs). These “regionalisation” efforts were strengthened in the 2021–25 strategy. The CPs in Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines and South India are seeking to learn from each other within the Asia regional platform. They hope to be able …

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Report on first year of FaReNe II

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

A 2-page report summarises the main activities and achievements during Year 1 in the second phase of the Farmer-led Research Networks (FaReNe) project in Burkina Faso and Mali, funded by McKnight Foundation.

About the Uganda Country Platform

18. July 2024 / Uganda Country Platform

Prolinnova–Uganda is an NGO-led initiative to develop a national learning network for the promotion of local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management (NRM). Prolinnova–Uganda was initiated in 2003, with the secretariat at Environmental Alert, an NGO. The programme seeks to: Set up an effective multistakeholder partnership programme in Uganda Set up lasting …

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Farmer-led joint research: Introduction

30. October 2022 / Farmer-led research

Farmer-led joint research with other actors in agricultural research and development is central to the Prolinnova approach. It builds on local innovation processes by farmers and is often referred to as “Participatory Innovation Development” (PID). Although PID is integral to all projects and initiatives under the umbrella of the Prolinnova network, some projects focus specifically …

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Integrating PID into education

5. September 2022 / Integrating PID into education

At the International Partners’ Workshop in Cambodia in 2006, Prolinnova partners decided to give more attention to curriculum development and the integration of Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approaches into higher education systems. They asked the Centre for International Cooperation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (CIS-VUA), then a partner in the Prolinnova International Support Team (IST), to facilitate …

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Policy brief on supporting local innovation for household food & nutrition security

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS

A 4-page policy brief on “Supporting local innovation for household food and nutrition security” draws lessons from experiences in the project “Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FaNS). This project was implemented in five countries – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana – in the period 2016–19 and was funded by Misereor/Catholic …

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