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Policy strategy to enhance smallholders’ voices in ARD

2. March 2013 24. July 2022 / News & Events

INcluding Smallholders in Agricultural Research for Development (INSARD), with EU support, aims to facilitate a broad range of African and European civil society organisations (CSOs), including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and farmer organisations (FOs), to be actively involved in influencing the formulation and implementation of agricultural research and development (ARD) in Africa. As part of the policy component of the project, …

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Strategy for upscaling Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) in Ghana and Ethiopia

18. February 2013 24. July 2022 / Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, News & Events, Ethiopia Country Platform

Under the transition phase of FAIR (Farmer Access to Innovation Resources), multistakeholder Country Platforms that have been piloting LISFs have analysed their experiences and have developed LISF models that they consider suitable for the specific context of their respective countries. They have also developed strategies for scaling up the LISF The first reports have been …

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Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR 2): main findings and lessons learnt in piloting LISFs in Nepal

15. January 2013 24. July 2022 / Nepal Country Platform, Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, News & Events

LI-BIRD, the lead NGO of the Prolinnova Nepal network was the first to pilot innovation funds within Prolinnova. This idea was elaborated and nurtured through the Farmer Access to Innovation Resources project that was rolled out in several countries in the network including Nepal. The experiences, findings, challenges and lessons are documented in the report, …

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Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR) 2 in South Africa: findings and lessons learnt

15. January 2013 24. July 2022 / Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, News & Events, South Africa

Prolinnova South Africa was one of the seven countries that piloted local innovation support funds (LISFs) under the Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR) project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. The report Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR) 2 in South Africa: findings and lessons learnt captures some of the key experiences and lessons of …

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Farmer Access to Innovation Resources: experiences with piloting Local Innovation Support Funds in Uganda

15. January 2013 24. July 2022 / Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, Uganda Country Platform, News & Events

Farmer Access to Innovation Resources: experiences with piloting Local Innovation Support Funds in Uganda is a report by Prolinnova-Uganda on a 3-year pilot under the Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR) project funded by Rockefeller Foundation. It looks at the structure of FAIR in Uganda, the functioning of LISFs in the Ugandan context, M&E of the …

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Action research on Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR): Ghana’s experience

15. January 2013 24. July 2022 / Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

Prolinnova Ghana has published the findings of the pilot undertaken in promoting local innovation support funds (LISFs) under the Farmer Access to Innovation Resources (FAIR) phase 2 financially supported by Rockefeller Foundation. This is one is a series of publications by the seven countries that undertook the pilot. It describes the process followed in calling …

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Climate change, innovation and gender

18. December 2012 24. July 2022 / News & Events

Prolinnova and the CGIAR Research Program on CCAFS (Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) are collaborating in exploring the linkages between innovation and climate-change mitigation and adaptation through a gender lens. This work involves a workshop to be held in Cambodia in April 2013 plus follow-on collaboration to support women smallholder farmers’ innovation in several …

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International Farmer Innovation Day: Prolinnova-India

4. December 2012 24. July 2022 / India, News & Events

The International Farmer Innovation Day was celebrated by Prolinnova-India on 29 November 2012 at Chinoni campus of INHERE. Mr Manoj Singh Gosai, Agriculture Development Officer (ADO), Chaukhutia, Distt Almora, presided over the meeting, which was facilitated by Mr Girish Chandra Pant, INHERE. Government officials, farmers and NGO members participated in the day-long meeting to understand innovation, …

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Report on Local Innovation Support Funds in Tanzania

4. December 2012 24. July 2022 / Tanzania Country Platform, Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities, News & Events

As the second in a series of country reports presenting the findings and lessons learnt in the action research on Local Innovation Support Funds, Prolinnova-Tanzania is proud to announce its recent publication FAIR Lessons learnt on facilitating Local Innovation Support Funds in Tanzania. It describes and assesses the structure, functioning, process and results of LISFs …

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First International Farmer Innovation Day celebrated!

2. December 2012 24. July 2022 / News & Events

The International Farmer Innovation Day under the auspices of the international Prolinnova network creates awareness of farmers’ own innovation efforts to adapt to a continuously changing environment and shows how research and extension staff – private and government – can interact and support this through farmer-led joint experimentation and learning, that is to say, through Participatory …

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