Some Kenyan and international members of the Prolinnova network attended the INSARD (Including Smallholders in Agricultural Research for Development) workshop held on 19 November 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. INSARD is an EU-funded project seeking to increase the voice of smallholders in decision-making about ARD, including funding, in Africa. The participants reflected on outcomes of a …
Brigid Letty from the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in South Africa, a member of Prolinnova-South Africa, attended the GLOBELICS (Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems)Conference in Argentina in November 2011. She presented a paper on “Assessing the impact of grassroots innovation in agriculture” (Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & …
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The experience of Prolinnova partners in piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) was presented at a session on “Learning networks” at the international conference “Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services” held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15-18 November 2011. The conference was organised by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU) and GFRAS (Global …
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In March 2011, four films featuring Prolinnova’s work were launched at the International Partners Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Three were based on work of the country networks in Cambodia, Niger & South Africa; the fourth is an overview of the global network. The films were made in partnership with TVEAP, a not-for-profit media …
In mid-October 2011 in Yaoundé, Prolinnova–Cameroon celebrated farmers’ innovativeness during three international days: the Rural Women’s Day (15 October), the World Food Day (16 October) and the International Day for Eradication of Poverty (17 October). As part of their process of identifying and giving recognition to local innovations and innovators, Prolinnova–Cameroon facilitated “Farmer Innovation Matinees”, …
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The Prolinnova International Secretariat presented experiences with piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) to representatives of African farmer organisations, European civil society organisations, research and the private sector at a workshop in Brussels, Belgium, on 27 September 2011. The workshop was organised by the Belgian NGO Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires (CSA) in the framework of PAEPARD …
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Prolinnova-Cameroon – the most recently established Country Platform (CP) to promote farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) – organised a PID training workshop on 21-23 July 2011 in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. A total of 18 people (14 men and 4 women) from five local NGOs and professional associations took part. The workshop was facilitated by …
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Prolinnova–Tanzania hosted IPW in March 2011The annual International Partners Workshop (IPW) was hosted on 21–25 March 2011 by the Prolinnova–Tanzania National Steering Committee and the coordinating NGO PELUM–Tanzania (www.prolinnova.net/tanzania). About 30 people from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe took part. It was preceded by a “writeshop” on experiences made by eight of the Prolinnova …
Grassroots innovation in the face of climate change provides a promising starting point for community-led adaptation.(PDF file; size : 163 KB)
After having done her Masters thesis research for Wageningen University on institutionalising Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in Cambodia (see herreport from Cambodia here), Fanos Mekonnen Birke went back to her home country, Ethiopia, and did a similar study in Tigray Regional State. On behalf of Prolinnova-Ethiopia, Fanos looked at how the concepts and practices of …
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