The project “Strengthening Community Resilience to Change: Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research” (CLIC–SR), supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, was completed on 31 August 2016. During the four years since 2012, the Prolinnova Country Platforms in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda made large strides in: strengthening the innovative capacity of small-scale farmers and their …
Cases of joint experimentation – Outcomes and lessons learnt August 2015 to July 2016 A training programme, conducted in collaboration with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), funded by Nuffic involved two workshops and a period of practical application of the principles covered in the workshops. The final report documents the cases of joint experimentation undertaken …
The Prolinnova network has entered into a partnership with A Growing Culture (AGC) to develop a knowledge base for showcasing and making accessible local innovations and farmer-led documentation. The partners come together around a shared vision to strengthen the channels for exchanging innovations and farmer-led documentation in our communities and beyond. The knowledge base is …
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The Prolinnova–Nepal Country Platform with the assistance of researchers and staff of the Natural History Museum (NHM), Tribhuvan University, organised a workshop on Grant Writing Development for Youth on 3–4 August 2016 and a seminar on Weed Science: Status and Future Directions on 5 August 2016. These events were supported by the Farmer-To-Farmer Program of …
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The 12th European IFSA (International Farming Systems Association) Symposium was hosted by the Harper Adams University in Newport, UK, on 12-15 July 2016 on the theme “Social and technological transformation of farming systems: diverging and converging pathways”. Ann Waters-Bayer of Prolinnova co-organised one of the workshops on “Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for learning and innovation”. This workshop …
Farmer innovators’ views on capacity to innovate presented at IFSA symposium Read More »
On 14–18 Nov 2016, the Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security (Proli–FaNS) project was launched with a meeting of all partners in Accra, Ghana. Proli-FaNS is a 3-year project supported by Misereor / Katholische Zentralstelle e.V. (Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid) (KZE, Germany) through a grant of the “One World No Hunger” …
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In 2015–16, a small team from the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), Country Platforms (CPs) and the International Support Team (IST) facilitated discussion within the network on the future direction and activities of Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management). On the basis of these discussions, it drafted the Prolinnova strategy …
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Photo: Taylor Barry The 2016 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) was hosted by Prolinnova/PROFEIS–Senegal, coordinated by Agrecol-Afrique, in the week of 16–20 May 2016 in Thiès, Senegal. For the workshop programme and list of participants, click here. The 18-minute video made by Thiès TV about the IPW2016 – reporting on participants from 22 countries who …
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Over a decade of experience of promoting farmer-led innovation through the Prolinnova network was showcased at the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) on 6–8 April 2016 in Johannesburg. The event was organised by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and hosted by the South African Government and the Agricultural Research …
