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Farmer Research Network Convening & National Agroecology Symposium in Kenya

2. December 2024 2. December 2024 / FaReNe, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) coordinator, attended two events in October and November 2024 in which he presented Prolinnova’s approach and achievements: the Farmer Research Network (FRN) Convening organised by McKnight Foundation and the first National Agroecology Symposium hosted by PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Kenya. The FRN Convening included a visit to local innovators …

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Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut

27. November 2024 27. November 2024 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …

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Report on International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference 2024

20. November 2024 26. November 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, West & Central Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …

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New Friends of Prolinnova: Suman Manandhar and Violet Kirigua

4. November 2024 4. November 2024 / Nepal Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair and NaviNut project featured in Appropriate Technology

3. November 2024 25. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …

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Webinar 3 report from series “Linking with universities & research in PID”

30. October 2024 30. October 2024 / Integrating PID into education, Senegal Country Platform, News & Events

Report available on Webinar 3, focussed on “Networking and resource mobilisation to support the process of integrating PID concepts and practices into universities and research institutions”. In 2023-24, the Prolinnova network held a series of three webinars for network members to share experiences in integrating the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach into instititions of research …

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Update on the WCA Subregional Platform / Mise à jour sur la plateforme sous-régionale AOC

8. October 2024 8. October 2024 / West & Central Africa, News & Events

Update on the WCA Subregional Platform In line with the Prolinnova network’s regionalisation agenda, as set out in one of the objectives of the ELI-FaNS project, regionalisation in West and Central Africa (WCA) has made progress. A meeting of Country Platforms (CPs) in the subregion was held on 24 May 2024. A total of 16 …

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Prolinnova webinar organised by IIRR

6. September 2024 7. October 2024 / News & Events

A 3-hour Prolinnova webinar “Revisiting Farmer-Centred/Participatory Approaches” was organised by IIRR together with Prolinnova CPs from Asia and Africa on Tuesday 17 Sept 2024. A report will be forthcoming shortly.

2023 report from Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform

27. August 2024 31. August 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

The annual report outlines the achievements, challenges, perspectives and lessons learnt in promoting local innovation and PID processes within the Eastern and Southern Africa subregion of the Prolinnova network in the year 2023, at the level of both the Country Platforms and the Subregional Platform.

Prolinnova–Asia annual report for 2023

13. August 2024 4. March 2025 / Asia & Pacific, Cambodia Country Platform, Nepal Country Platform, South India Country Platform, News & Events, Philippines Country Platform

This report provides an overview of activities that took place at the country (Cambodia, Nepal, South India, Philippines) and regional level in 2023 within the Prolinnova–Asia regional network. A special focus in 2023 was on re-establishing and activating the Nepal Country Platform. You can find the 4-page report here.