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4-7 May 2009 • Kathmandu, Nepal An international symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on southern and eastern Asia, was held on 4–7 May 2009 in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture)–Asia, ICIMOD (International Centre for integrated Mountain Development) and Prolinnova (Promoting …

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The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a conference on “Advancing Agriculture in Developing Countries through Knowledge and Innovation” on 7–9 April 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The conference provided a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences on knowledge and innovation for development among …

Pro-poor innovation highlighted at IFPRI conference Read More »

Maria Omonte, working with Prolinnova-Bolivia, has recently compiled a publication on PID in Spanish. Besides an in-depth discussion on PID and its practice, it also brings an introduction on Prolinnova in general. The document hopes to trigger reflection and discussion on the role technicians and policymakers are to play towards a more supportive role to …

PID in Spanish!! Desarrollo Participativo de Innovación – publicación en Español! Read More »

Earlier this month, the Rockefeller Foundation (one of Prolinnova’s core donors) confirmed its interest in supporting a second phase of Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISF) by Prolinnova. These pilots aim at finding best ways to make resources available directly to farmers to experiment and innovate, where needed jointly with support agencies and researchers. Initial pilots in five countries (Cambodia, Ethiopia, …

Support from Rockefeller Foundation for continued piloting of Local Innovation Support Funds Read More »

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The 2008 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW), held in Tamale, Ghana, brought together 33 advocates of participatory innovation development (PID) from 22 countries including farmers, NGOs, and staff of government ministries and extension agencies, research organizations and universities. The participants discussed experiences in the various countries with PID, formulated lessons learnt and mapped out strategies …

2008 International Partners Workshop Read More »

A subgroup of Country Programmes within Prolinnova jointly developed ideas for learning and action related to Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in the face of HIV/AIDS. In January 2008, the HAPID (HIV/AIDS and PID) subproject was launched. The initial two years are funded by the Netherlands Directorate for International Cooperation (DGIS) under the Community-Led Natural Resource …

Innovation by communities confronting HIV/AIDS: new sub-project Read More »

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Several Prolinnova partners were invited to the 3-day workshop “Farmer First Revisited: farmer innovation and agricultural research and development twenty years on” organised by Ian Scoones, John Thompson, Robert Chambers and their team at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, on 12-14 December 2007. The workshop brought together about …

Farmer First Revisited: reflecting on farmer innovation Read More »