NGO participants in the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), 28-31 March 2010, in Montpellier, France, made a statement about the process and content of the consultations and pointed out some gaps. Among other issues, it called for inclusion of farmer organisations and NGOs in governance of agricultural research and development at international, …
From 22-27 March, the annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) will take place in Wageningen, The Netherlands. This year’s IPW is organized by the Prolinnova international secretariat. The venue is Hotel Nol in’t Bosch (http://www.nolintbosch.nl/), a small hotel nicely situated in the forests of Wageningen. The IPW provides an opportunity for the Country Platforms, the …
A new NGO partner called ‘Contribution au Développement Local Durable’ (CDLD) has joined recently Prolinnova-Niger. A farmer innovator day was held in Takalahia in October 2009. Participants were farmer innovators from Boumba, Garin Bourtou and Takalahia and members of the Union of farmer innovators who held its first meeting extended to Head of the village …
As part of the ETC’s PSO-supported Learn Work Trajectory, a PID-ToF refresher course was organized on 17-22 August 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. It was hosted by Prolinnova-Kenya with World Neighbours (WN), Kenya Network for Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies (KENDAT) and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as members of the Workshop Steering Committee. The event was …
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The annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) took place on 8–11 May 2009 in Pokhara, Nepal, at the foot of the beautiful Annapurna range of the Himalaya Mountains. This year’s IPW was shorter than normal, because it came immediately after the Nepalese Farmer Innovation Fair (2–4 May) and the Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium (4–7 May), which …
Nepal hosted Prolinnova International Partners Workshop on 8–11 May Read More »
The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) met in Nepal on 7–8 May 2009 for its 8 th face-to-face meeting since its establishment in February 2005. The current POG Chair, Scott Killough from World Neighbors welcomed the new members elected in early 2009: Magagi Saidou from Niger (for francophone Africa), Hector Velasquez from Bolivia (for Latin America), …
8th Prolinnova Oversight Group meeting held in Nepal on 7–8 May Read More »
The Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium (IAPS) was held 4-7 May 2009 in Nepal. The symposium was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture)–Asia, ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) and Prolinnova (PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management) in collaboration with the Prolinnova-Nepal partners LI-BIRD (Local Initiatives for Biodiversity …
A Nepalese Farmer Innovation Fair was organised on 2–4 May 2009 by Prolinnova Nepal, with LI-BIRD (Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development) taking the lead, supported by partners in the National Working Group – Ecoscenter (Chitwan), Practical Action Nepal (Kathmandu), Institute for Agriculture and Animal Sciences (Rampur), Tuki Sunkoshi (Sindupulchowk) and the Department of …
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The 2009 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) took place on 8-11 May in Pokhara, Nepal. It allowed participants to visit cases of Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in the field and to share and learn on the basis of concrete experiences of the Country Platforms (CPs). The workshop was hosted by the Prolinnova-Nepal National Steering Committee, …
Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research and Development edited by Ian Scoones and John Thompson, with foreword by Robert Chamberspublished by Practical Action, London Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world’s most pressing issues – climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years …
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