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 …
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 …
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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 …
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PELUM South Africa and PROLINNOVA South Africa jointly present GOOD PRACTICE EXHIBITION “SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSESFOR IMPROVED LIVELIHOODS” Call for case studies and displays We call upon development practitioners (individuals and organizations) to identify and document good practice in sustainable technologies and processes for improved livelihoods. In line with PELUM and PROLINNOVA’s vision, such …
On 11 December 2007, the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) officially welcomed Prolinnova Mozambique into the international Prolinnova community of practice. The idea for this Country Programme (CP) was born in a workshop organised by VETAID-Mozambique in December 2006, which brought together the main stakeholders in agricultural research and development in the country to share experiences …
Because so many people from the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) were invited to the Farmer First Revisited workshop in Brighton, the POG took the opportunity to hold a meeting of these people immediately before the workshop, on 11 December 2007. Enough members were present to be able to form a quorum. The highlight of the …
Upon invitation of the Executive Secretary of APAARI (Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions), Pratap Shrestha, Country Coordinator of Prolinnova-Nepal, represented the international Prolinnova programme in an Expert Consultation to Review Progress of Agricultural Research Networks and Consortia in Asia-Pacific, held on 8-10 October 2007 at the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in …
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In 2007, Prolinnova-Ethiopia prepared operational guidelines and technical guidelines for implementing the project “Farmer Access to Innovation Resources” (FAIR) to pilot Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs).
