A member of the Prolinnova–Ethiopia Working Group – Yohannes GebreMichael from Addis Ababa University – represented the international Prolinnova network at an international conference on “Pastoralism and climate change adaptation in Africa” held on 24–28 May 2010 at Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya. The conference was organised by the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) …
Farmer innovators who are piloting a Local Innovation Support Fund (LISF) in Ambo, Ethiopia, were recently trained in documenting their own experimentation and innovation. The LISF pilot is being coordinated by the Ethiopian Rural Self-Help Association (ERSHA), a local NGO that is part of the Prolinnova–Ethiopia network. The facilitators of the training were Fetien Abay, …
Training local innovators in Farmer-Led Documentation in Ambo, Ethiopia! Read More »
Following the RUAF/Prolinnova -organised workshop on “Influencing and Assisting National Policy Processes” held at Doorn, The Netherlands from 10-12 October 2009, Prolinnova SA organised a country workshop to broaden the understanding of policy influencing, mainly amongst its National Steering Committee members, and to begin planing how go about it. Attached is the report by the …
Policy Influencing Worskhop: Institute for Natural Resources/Prolinnova South Africa! Read More »
Since 2009, it is noted that there is an increasing number of institutions, research and development projects using PID and other Prolinnova tools in implementing their activities with their own resources. Among others, in Niger there are INRAN, PPILDA, Faculty of Agronomy, NGO CDLD Gaya, Farmer Platforms and Misereor partners. An important transborders (Niger and …
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) organized the first national farmer innovator conference 10-11 February in Phnom Penh. CEDAC was invited to participate in this conference as a guest. The objectives of the conference were to: 1) enable farmer to share their innovations with each other as well as with MAFF officials; and …
The Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) is an annual event that gathers various members of the Prolinnova network. This year, the IPW was successfully held last March 22-26, 2010 at Hotel Nol in’t Bosch in Wageningen, Netherlands. Around forty participants coming from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe came to participate. The workshop proved to …
International Partners Workshops held in the Netherlands 2010! Read More »
The research project “Joint Learning in Innovation Systems in African Agriculture” (JOLISAA) is funded by the European Commission (EC) and led by Bernard Triomphe from CIRAD, France, working together with ETC EcoCulture / Prolinnova, ICRA (International Centre for development-oriented Research in Agriculture), Wageningen University and decentralised networks coordinated in West, East and Southern Africa by …
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 …
