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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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The approach of Prolinnova partners to agricultural research and development (ARD) and experiences in investing directly in farmer experimentation and innovation were presented at the second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2), held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, 29 October to 1 November 2012. GCARD2 was hosted by the Global Forum on Agricultural …

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Some of the work of Prolinnova partners was presented at the Tropentag, the largest conference in Europe on research for food security, NRM and rural development in the tropics and subtropics, on 19-21 September 2012 in Germany. The Tropentag was hosted this year jointly by the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel/Witzenhausen and focused on the theme …

Tropentag 2012: Prolinnova cases from Ethiopia & Niger Read More »

McKnight Foundation invited Ann Waters-Bayer from the Prolinnova International Support Team to join as a resource person in their Leadership Meeting for the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP). The meeting from 30 July to 1 August 2012 in Minneapolis, USA, was designed to create a shared understanding among the Leadership Team of the diverse approaches …

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From 30 May to 1 June 2012, the Agricultural and Rural Development Department of the World Bank hosted an international workshop in Washington DC on “Investing in and Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems”. The 3-day event brought together people from inside and outside the World Bank to launch the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) Sourcebook and to discuss …

World Bank workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems Read More »

The annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) was held in mid-March 2012 in Bamako, Mali, hosted by ADAF-Gallè, the Malian NGO that coordinates PROFEIS (Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) in Mali. Before the IPW, there were parallel meetings of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) and the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) that are …

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