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On 12 May 2005, 70 conference delegates recognised the significance of farmers’ social and technical innovations by awarding Roberta Burgess and Tim Hart (both Core Team members of the South African Prolinnova network) the prize for best scientific paper at the 39th Annual Conference of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension, held in Bloemfontein. …

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The first face-to-face meeting of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) was held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on 17–18 February 2005. At the international workshop held in Yirgalem, Ethiopia, in March 2004, Prolinnova partners had decided to set up the Oversight Group to ensure effectiveness of the international programme and accountability to its country-level partners, their …

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A new IK Note written by Tim Hart, Aubrey Billet (the small-scale apple producer who is the innovator concerned) and Roberta Burgess from the Prolinnova-South Africa programme. (PDF file; size :46 KB)

The latest IK Note to appear on the World Bank website (www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/default.htm) is about local innovation in farmer-to-farmer extension in Burkina Faso. It is based on documentation made by Aly Ouedraogo and Hamado Sawadogo during the earlier Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa (ISWC) programme and was edited by members of the Prolinnova International …

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  A Participatory Video Training Workshop was organised for 14 participants from Ghana (10), Nepal (1), South Africa (1) and the Netherlands (2) from 16 Nov to 2 Dec 2004 at the Radach Memorial Centre in Tamale, Northern Ghana. The workshop, which was facilitated by the UK/France-based NGO InsightShare, brought together participants from the Prolinnova, …

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Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK – the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new …

IK Note 76: Promoting Local Innovation: Enhancing IK Dynamics and Links with Scientific Knowledge Read More »

  In March 2003, IIRR, LBL (Swiss Centre for Agricultural Extension) and ETC – with funds from SDC (Swiss Development Cooperation) – compiled a CD-ROM on participatory innovation development. In October 2002, IIRR published Participatory Technology Development for Agricultural Improvement: Challenges for Institutional Integration, based on African, Asian and Latin American cases analysed in the …

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Six farmer innovators from Ethiopia took part in the recent international workshop on Promoting Local Innovation (PROLINNOVA), which was held in March 2004 at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia. Over 60 participants from Africa, Asia and Europe took part. They discussed experiences in building multi-stakeholder partnerships to promote participatory research …

IK Note 70: A woman innovators speaks Read More »

8–12 March 2004, Yirgalem, Ethiopia Introduction Prolinnova is an international NGO-led initiative to build a global learning and advocacy network on promoting local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management (NRM). The focus is on the dynamics of indigenous knowledge and learning, and on how research, extension and other actors in development can …

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