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, …
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 …
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 …
Prolinnova National Workshop in Sudan The Prolinnova National Workshop was convened on November 29, 2004 at the Meridien Hotel – Khartoum in Sudan. This was attended by people from Agricultural Research and Technology Corporation (Wad-Mdani Rearch Station, Kassala Research Station, El-Obeid Research Station and El-Fashir Research Station); Academic Institutions: (University of Juba, University of Sudan …
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 …
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 …
8–12 March 2004, Furra Institute of Development Studies,Yirgalem, Ethiopia In March 2004 the first international workshop of Prolinnova partners was held at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem, Southern Ethiopia. It was hosted by AgriService Ethiopia (ASE), the NGO that serves as Secretariat of the Prolinnova partners in Ethiopia. Financial contributions for the …
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The PRGA Program (www.prgaprogram.org) has contracted a research liberian to produce an annotated bibliography on impact assessment of participatory research and gender analysis in plant breeding and natural resource management research. At this point she is only collecting information about referred journal articles published in English, but we hope to expand the scope of the …
