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Staff members of the Institute of Science and Technology (IOST) at Tribhuvan University and affiliated campuses joined a training programme on local innovation and farmer-led joint research, thanks to funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nuffic (Dutch organisation for internationalisation of higher education). The training began with a 6-day residential workshop in …

University staff in Nepal learn about farmer-led joint research Read More »

The overall progress report on Year 1 of the Proli-FaNS (Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security) project funded through Misereor covers the period from 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2017. It shows how Prolinnova partners in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya have been enhancing the innovative capacities of rural communities …

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The mid-year progress report of the Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FaNS) project up to July 2017 gives an overview of activities accomplished by the five Country Platforms involved – in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya. These include preparations for farmer-led research, advocacy and documentation activities, and the work of …

Update from the Proli-FaNS project in Africa Read More »

The Prolinnova Country Platforms have elected two new members in the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG): Elske van der Fliert to an independent seat in the POG and Joe Ouko to the seat for farmer organisations. Elske van de Fliert is Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and Director of its Centre for …

Two new Prolinnova Oversight Group members elected Read More »

Pratap Shrestha of USC Canada has replaced Ann Waters-Bayer as co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG). He is a founder member of Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), a Nepal-based NGO that initially hosted Prolinnova–Nepal, and was Executive Director of LI-BIRD in 2003–09. He was instrumental in setting up Prolinnova–Nepal and was …

Pratap Shrestha new Prolinnova Oversight Group co-chair Read More »

Members of the Prolinnova International Support Team (IST) were responsible for two case studies conducted in 2016 as part of a wider study on “Development Outcomes of Local Innovation” (DOLI) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These were cases selected from the earlier desk-study by Prolinnova: “Study on impacts of farmer-led research …

Development outcomes of local innovation in Sri Lanka & Vietnam Read More »