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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 …

GOOD PRACTICE EXHIBITION: “SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES FOR IMPROVED LIVELIHOODS” Read More »

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 …

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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 …

Sixth POG meeting in Brighton Read More »

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 …

Relevance of Prolinnova for Asia-Pacific presented at APAARI consultation Read More »

Prolinnova–South Africa held a three-day workshop (30 Nov–2 Dec 2005) on Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, in northern South Africa. It was the first in a learning sequence that continues with fieldwork in the participants’ working areas and a second workshop in early 2006. A total of 34 people (24 men, 10 …

PID workshop in Limpopo Province, South Africa Read More »

The first ever extension summit for the Pacific, organised by the Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC) and its “Development of Sustainable Agriculture” project, was held in Tonga on 21–25 November 2005. Laurens van Veldhuizen of ETC EcoCulture gave a keynote address on institutionalising participatory research and extension. He also made a presentation on modern …

Participatory extension in the Pacific Read More »

The coordinator of FAIR (Farmer Access to Innovation Resources), Anton Krone of Prolinnova -South Africa, was in Montpellier, France, in mid-October 2005 taking part in a meeting of coordinators of the twelve projects that have won support from the DURAS (Promoting Sustainable Development in Agricultural Research Systems) Competitive Grant Scheme. DURAS is a research-for-development programme …

Starting FAIR Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) Read More »

From 27 October to 7 November 2005, Tim Hart and Chris Opondo were in Rome, Italy, at the 18th International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium on “Farming Systems and Poverty: Making a Difference – Global Learning Opportunity” (or “GLO” for short) to present papers on African farmers’ innovations and explore possibilities for collaboration in development-oriented …

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