This month Femke van der Lee, until recently MSc student at Wageningen University and Research, finalised her report on the study of policy change processes in the Limpopo Province of South Africa towards integration of participatory approaches in theory and practice: Actors, Politics and Narratives: Policy Change Processes in the Limpopo Department of Agriculture. …
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Prolinnova partners in Bolivia, Ethiopia and Nepal jointly produced an issue paper in the GTZ series People, Food and Biodiversity, as part of the sector project Sustainable Management of Resources in Agriculture, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (www.gtz.de/en/themen/umwelt-infrastruktur/18501.htm). Entitled “Promoting local innovation in managing agricultural biodiversity”, it …
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The 2011 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop took place 21–27 March 2011 in Tanzania, with the Prolinnova-Tanzania National Steering Committee and coordinating NGO PELUM-Tanzania hosting the event.
IIRR and ETC (Prolinnova Secretariat) conducted a training course on participatory monitoring and evaluation for 23 of its partners based in 2 countries in Asia (Nepal and Cambodia) and 9 countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Tanzania). Six of the 23 participants are female. There are 20 partner organizations …
2023 IPW + ELI-FaNS + Proli-GEAFaSa workshops report (22-27 Oct, Polokwane. South Africa) 2023 compilation of PPT presentations in Polokwane 2021 – 2022 Prolinnova international progress report (Nov 2023) 2022 Prolinnova Africa Partners Workshop + SULCI-FaNS + Proli-GEAFaSa workshop report (10-14 Oct, Nairobi, Kenya) Main report in English and French Compilation of presentations 2021 SULCI-FaNS …
A blog by Molly Theobald from the Worldwatch project Nourishing the Planet features the funding of local innovation in water management, including an example from the piloting of Local Innovation Support Funds supported by Rockefeller Foundation under the Prolinnova umbrella: “As climate change worsens, and fresh water availability grows more erratic, the food security of …
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The overlooked knowledge: exploring knowledge circulation in the scaling up of local innovation: the case of beehive construction and queen replacement in Enebsie District, Ethiopia, by Ashagrie Getnet (MSc thesis, Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands), 2008
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Experiences of Prolinnova partners were presented at the international symposium on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food (ISDA) held on 28–30 June 2010 in Montpellier, southern France, as part of Hot Topic 4 “Acting collectively: what kinds of institutions, policies and forms of governance can strengthen society’s capacity for resilience”. The paper entitled …
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