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Year 2 report on Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate

25. January 2022 24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events

The second year of the 3-year Misereor-funded project Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS) was completed in September 2021. Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya continue to strengthen the innovation capacities of small-scale farmers, especially women and women’s groups, to improve food and nutrition …

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Kenyan farmer innovator featured in “Mother Earth News”

16. January 2022 16. January 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

An article by Meredith Leigh in the magazine Mother Earth News “Animals on the farm: a holistic approach” (March 2021) describes how farmers around the world are developing innovative ways of integrating livestock into farming operations. One of the main examples is the feed for dairy goats developed by the Kenyan small-scale farmer Joe Ouko …

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Virtual International Partners Workshop 2021

20. December 2021 24. July 2022 / News & Events

The International Partners Workshop (IPW) took place virtually in early October 2021, the first day being an online marketplace that gave partners in the Country Platforms a chance to share some experiences in promoting local innovation and participatory innovation development (PID) activities in their countries. The IPW focused on two main themes – institutionalisation of …

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International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) 2021 in Nepal

1. December 2021 24. July 2022 / Farmer Innovation Fair, Nepal Country Platform, News & Events

“Sharing about farmer innovation with students of secondary schools and universities was the highlight of the events to mark IFID 2021 in Nepal. One event was held at the Creative Academy, a secondary school in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, and the other was a Zoom event organised by a supporter of farmer innovation. Read the report ….”

Appropriate Technology magazine features Cameroonian Farmer Innovation Fair

1. December 2021 24. July 2022 / Farmer Innovation Fair, Cameroon, News & Events

The September 2021 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol. 48, No. 3) brings a 2-page article “First innovation fair celebrates farmer ingenuity in Cameroon” written by Abdel-Karim Ali Mahamane, Prolinnova’s Subregional Coordinator in West & Central Afrca, and Jean-Bosco Etoa, Prolinnova-Cameroon coordinator. The article highlights the awards given during the fair to young people …

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Kenyan farmer innovation in Horn of Africa + Sahel Knowledge Share Fair

6. November 2021 24. July 2022 / News & Events

The report of the “Horn of Africa and Sahel Virtual Knowledge Share Fair: Promoting innovation to build resilience against climatic shocks” that was held in October 2020 is now online (https://resilience.igad.int/sharefairs/2020). The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in partnership with the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Food and …

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NaviNut project active at Tropentag 2021 in Germany

11. October 2021 28. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, News & Events

Although the NaviNut (Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands) project is still relatively young, the fieldwork having started only in late 2020, several partners presented posters or gave oral presentations at the international Tropentag conference on 15–17 Sept 2021. The Tropentag is an interdisciplinary, science-based and …

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Virtual marketplace for Prolinnova Country Platforms

4. October 2021 27. December 2022 / News & Events

On 1 October, we had our first virtual marketplace for Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs). It was attended by 42 participants from various CPs, members of the Prolinnova Oversight Group, International Support Group and Friends of Prolinnova. Thanks to all the CPs and the farmer innovators for documenting the local innovation and PID processes. The videos …

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Prolinnova–Kenya gives PID training to stakeholders in NaviNut project

30. September 2021 28. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

Participants in the NaviNut LI/PID training in Marsabit (Photo: Diba Tari) Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) conducted a training on promoting local innovation (LI) and participatory innovation development (PID) for stakeholders of the NaviNut project in Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. NaviNut is a 3-year project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMEL), implemented by a consortium …

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New member of Prolinnova International Support Team

6. September 2021 24. July 2022 / News & Events

Fanos Mekonnen Birke has joined the Prolinnova International Support Team. At its May 2021 meeting, the Board of Agrecol Association – the Northern Focal Point of the Prolinnova network – decided that Fanos would be the contact person between Agrecol and Prolinnova. She has many years’ experience with Prolinnova, as she facilitated analysis of efforts to …

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