Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 annual meeting of partners in the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project was held online. The main aims of the workshop were to: share experiences on project implementation in Year 1 identify capacity needs and plan for technical support to address …
Traduction française ci-dessous This progress report describes activities and outputs achieved in the first half-year (1 October 2019–31 March 2020) of the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project. At Country Platform (CP) level, these included: inception workshop; project stakeholder orientation in each of the four CPs involved in …
A new Prolinnova project “From despair to hope – promoting women’s and youth innovation for food and nutrition security and community resilience in Sudan and South Sudan” was developed jointly by Chesha Wettasinha, International Support Team (IST) member based in KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands), Fetien Abay, long-time Prolinnova partner in Mekelle University in northern …
Prolinnova multi-CP capacity strengthening in Horn of Africa Read More »
Photo by Laurens van Veldhuizen Photo by Chesha Wettasinha Joe Ouko, a farmer innovator in Kenya and a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), was a panelist in a webinar hosted by A Growing Culture (AGC). This was one in a webinar series on the theme “Hunger for Justice”. Joe shared his …
Farmer innovator Joe Ouko featured in webinar “Hunger for Justice” Read More »
Brigid Letty is a South African agricultural development specialist and principle scientist with the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. She has a BSc in Agriculture (animal science), an MSc in range and forage science and a PhD in agroforestry systems from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Before joining INR in 2003, she worked for six …
Brigid Letty from South Africa joins Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) Read More »
As of 1 June 2020, Lisa Williams van Dijk has replaced Pratap Shrestha as co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), after Pratap retired from the POG. Lisa is head of Knowledge Exchange & Research Support at the Royal Agricultural University in the UK and is involved in the European Union Horizon 2020 LIAISON project …
Suman Manandhar from Nepal has joined the POG as an independent member. Suman will occupy the seat that fell vacant with the departure of Pratap Shrestha, also from Nepal, who had served the POG for several years. Suman has long been a committed member of the Prolinnova network and …
Jacob Barasa Wanyama has been selected as the new Prolinnova Subregional Coordinator (SRC) in Eastern & Southern Africa (ESA). He took over from Brigid Letty from South Africa on 1 June 2020; Brigid mentored him throughout the month of June. He is coordinating the subregional activities of the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Ethiopia, Kenya, …
New Subregional Coordinator in Eastern & Southern Africa Read More »
Project of promoting ethnoveterinary medicine for sustainable livestock husbandry in Northern Ghana A 3-year “ethnovet” project (Oct 2019–Sept 2022) funded by Misereor / KZE (Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid, Germany) is being implemented by the Association of Church-based Development Projects (ACDEP) with four Ghanaian partner institutions and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss …
Ethnoveterinary knowledge and innovation – new project in Ghana Read More »
In this time of lockdown almost worldwide because of Covid-19, most Prolinnova partner organisations promoting farmer-led innovation, research and development have not been able to travel to meet with their farmer partners face-to-face, but the farmers continue their work – including their innovation in the face of the new challenges posed by the virus and …
