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NaviNut project active at Tropentag 2021 in Germany

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

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

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

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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New Prolinnova multistakeholder platform in Benin! / Nouvelle plateforme multi-acteurs au Bénin !

30. October 2022 / News & Events

Voir texte français ci-dessous Prolinnova–Benin was set up in May 2021 – a long-held idea that could finally be realised through the project “Capacity building of agricultural college teachers to support social entrepreneurship based on local innovation for food and nutritional security” carried out by the University of Parakou (UP) in northern Benin, the Prolinnova international network, …

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New POG Co-Chair: Suman Manandhar

24. July 2022 / News & Events

Suman Manandhar (Nepal), an independent member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), agreed during the July 2021 POG meeting to co-chair the POG alongside Lisa Williams van Dijk (UK). The previous co-chair was Chris Macoloo (Kenya), who was a very important pillar in the governance of Prolinnova during the process of regionalising the network. Suman …

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Prolinnova international report 2019-20

5. September 2024 / Program Information and News, News & Events

Based on reports from the Country Platforms, Subregional Coordinators and other members of Prolinnova’s International Support Team (IST), the IST compiled a report on the activities of the network at national regional and global level from January 2019 to December 2020. The Prolinnova network, which was conceived at a GFAR-supported meeting in 1999 and presented …

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First Farmer Innovation Fair in Cameroon

24. July 2022 / Cameroonian Farmer Innovation Fair, Cameroon, News & Events

Cameroon Farmer Innovation Fair prize winners (Photo: Jeanne Sikangwa) The Country Platform (CP) in Cameroon organised the first Farmer Innovation Fair in the country on 27–29 May 2021.  The fair gave value to the innovativeness of farmers throughout Cameroon and to gave innovative farmers an opportunity to network with other farmers, formal researchers and agricultural …

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FaReNe activities in Burkina in 2020 / Activités de FaReNe au Burkina en 2020

24. July 2022 / FaReNe, Burkina Faso Country Platform, News & Events

The CP in Burkina gives a 2-page English update of activities in 2020 in the project “Supporting and strengthening farmers’ research networks to improve local innovation in Burkina Faso and Mali, Phase II” (FaReNe II). The update focuses on farmer-led joint experimentation in Gomponsom (Northern Region). Le CP au Burkina donne une mise à jour …

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Appropriate Technology magazine features Prolinnova achievements

24. July 2022 / News & Events

The June 2021 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol. 48, No. 2) brings three articles about Prolinnova – one on social innovation for improved food and water security in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; another on setting up a multistakeholder platform to promote farmer-led research and innovation in Benin; and a third one on the election …

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