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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 …

Has PID been institutionalised in Tigray Region of Ethiopia? Read More »

At the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) meeting in Tanzania in late March 2011, a proposal from INHERE (Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education) was accepted to initiate a Prolinnova platform in India. INHERE will carry out a series of multi-stakeholder consultations for developing regional collaborative action plans to promote agricultural research and innovation for …

Initiative to set up PROLINNOVA–India Read More »

A member of the Prolinnova International Support Team, Ann Waters-Bayer (ETC Netherlands, Leusden), was a speaker at the “Workshop on Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender2011): From Research to Practice” that the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosted on its campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in early February. At the workshop, she made a presentation …

Empowering women livestock-keepers to make decisions! Read More »

Ann Hollemann, a researcher linked to the Centre for International Studies of the Free University of Amsterdam, just finalised her mostly web-based study to explore the extent to which Prolinnova type of concepts and approaches (related to IK, local innovation and PID) are referred to in academic studies as well as in projects and websites of …

Results of Prolinnova mainstreaming efforts at international level studied! Read More »

Beyene Tedla from the Local Seed Business (LSB) Project at Mekelle University in Tigray, Ethiopia, attended the AgKnowledge Share Fair organised by ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) in Addis Ababa in late October 2010. There, he took part in various focus groups, such as on collaborative writing, social media, documenting farmers’ knowledge, and women and …

U of Mekelle / Prolinnova–Ethiopia at AgKnowledge Share Fair! Read More »

This is the third in a series of booklets that collect experiences of Prolinnova partners from diverse countries in promoting participatory agricultural research and development in ways that enhance local innovation capacities. The nine case studies in the booklet describe how Prolinnova partners have tried to bring different stakeholders – scientists, extensionists, development agents and …

Booklet on farmer-led joint research published Read More »