Agroecology was on the margins of international attention in 1984 when the Information Centre for Low-External-Input Agriculture (ILEIA) was created in The Netherlands at ETC Foundation. ILEIA sought to collect and share practical experiences that offered alternatives to “Green Revolution” agriculture – alternatives appropriate and feasible for small-scale farmers. The centre facilitated learning about local …
The 4-year project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Animal Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” funded by Misereor (Germany) wrapped up with a 2-day National Stakeholders Workshop on 17–18 May 2023 in Tamale, Ghana. The project aimed to improve animal health, production and productivity by small-scale farmers through increased recognition and use of ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) …
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The 2022 annual report on the activities of the Prolinnova subregional platform in Eastern and Southern Africa highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and Country Platform levels. The achievements include identifying, documenting and sharing local innovation processes (and local innovations), facilitating farmer-led participatory innovation development, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also …
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The Country Platforms (CPs) in West & Central Africa have elected a new person to take the seat for their region in the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG): Franklin Avornyo from Ghana. Franklin is an animal nutrition scientist in the Animal Research Institute (ARI) under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana. He …
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In the March 2023 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine, there are three articles about Prolinnova people and activities: Farmers’ varieties mitigate and adapt to climate change in South India, by TJ James, Hubby Mathew & Stebin Sebastian from the Prolinnova–South India network (pp18–20) Promoting women’s innovation for food and nutrition security, by ELI-FaNS project coordinator Joe …
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Continuation of the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach will depend on learning by younger generations who will enter into work in agricultural research and development institutions. Prolinnova partners at country level are therefore linking with universities and colleges to involve students and young researchers in PID processes and give them opportunities to learn also through …
Webinar on practising PID within universities & research institutes Read More »
The Farmer-Led Innovation Network (FLIN) was established in 2018 to share knowledge and experiences and provide a collective advocacy voice for farmers leading innovation processes. Currently, FLIN is made up of 20 organisations, including governmental and non-governmental organisations, research institutes, the levy board, farmer organisations and advisory services. FLIN was recognised as the UK Prolinnova …
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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Innovative Water Management Forum in Senegal On 30–31 January 2023, the Proli-GEAFaSa (Promoting local innovation in water management in family farming in the Sahel) project held a forum in Thiès, Senegal, on agricultural water management in the Sahel to provide space for different actors in research and advisory services to discuss their role in processes …
In the GFAR Talks session online on 1 March 2023, Vincent Mariadho from Prolinnova–Kenya explained Prolinnova’s perspective on how universities can meet small-scale farmers’ needs by integrating the approach of recognising local innovation and facilitating farmer-led participatory research engaging university students and staff. Vincent discussed with Jim French, Secretary General of GCHERA (Global Confederation of …
GFAR Talks: Can higher education meet farmers’ needs? Read More »
