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Year 1 report “Expanding promotion of Local Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (ELI-FaNS)

28. February 2024 4. February 2025 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform, Kenya Country Platform, South Africa

The Misereor-funded project “Expanding the promotion of local innovation for food security and healthy nutrition to strengthen resilience, with focus on women” (ELI-FaNS, 2023–25) is a follow-on project to SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate in Food and Nutrition Security: 2019–22). Field-level activities are underway in ten action-learning sites facilitated by five Country Platforms, …

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Webinar 2 report on building capacities in universities and research institutes to integrate PID

18. February 2024 30. October 2024 / Integrating PID into education, News & Events

Webinar 2 theme: “Building capacities within universities and research institutes to create conducive conditions for stimulating reflection and integrating Participatory Innovation Development (PID)” The Prolinnova international network (www.prolinnova.net) initiated a series of three webinars to provide an opportunity for its Community of Practice (CoP) to share experiences in linking with university and research actors in …

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Final report on pilot Ethnovet Project in Ghana (2019–23)

12. February 2024 12. February 2024 / Ethnovet Project, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

The Misereor-funded pilot project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Animal Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” (Ethnovet Project) started in October 2019 and continued until May 2023. It sought to improve the health and productivity of livestock kept by male and female small-scale farmers through increased recognition and use of ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) as a complementary …

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Ghanaian farmer innovators awarded at National Farmers Day celebrations

9. February 2024 12. February 2024 / News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

At the National Farmers’ Day on 1 December 2023 celebrated throughout Ghana, 12 farmer innovators (11 women, 1 man) working with Prolinnova-Ghana had an opportunity to exhibit their innovations, discuss with local policymakers and receive awards from them. Samuel Atia, the Prolinnova-Ghana coordinator, and Joe Nchor, the coordinator of the Misereor-funded project “Expanding the Promotion …

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Prolinnova in GFAiR Collective Action on Transforming Higher Education in Agriculture

7. February 2024 14. March 2024 / Integrating PID into teaching material & curricula, Integrating PID into education, News & Events

The Collective Action (CA) on Transforming Higher Education in Agriculture, formally launched on 14 September 2023, aims to promote and accelerate the transformation of higher educational models of learning through improved technical and practical skills and effectiveness of agricultural professionals to increase their employability, agricultural entrepreneurship, innovation and ethical leadership within their countries’ agricultural innovation …

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Local innovations in West Africa published in Appropriate Technology magazine

2. February 2024 7. May 2024 / Burkina Faso Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

The international magazine Appropriate Technology (www.appropriate-technology.com) has published two articles about Prolinnova activities in promoting local innovation processes in West Africa: Competition for farmer innovators in managing water in Burkina Faso, by Hamadé Sigué, Augustin Ouédraogo, Kouété Paul Jimmy & Ann Waters-Bayer, in Appropriate Technology 50 (4): 50–52, including a box “Woman farmer’s innovation: growing …

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Call for posters for Prolinnova conference on participatory innovation

20. January 2024 26. June 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

With funding from the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation, Prolinnova–Kenya will host an International Farmer Innovation Fair and Conference (IFIF&C) on 8–10 April 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Farmer innovators from 11 of Prolinnova’s multistakeholder Country Platforms (CPs) in Africa will showcase their innovations in person. A 2-hour virtual session on 9 April …

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Prolinnova joins the Agroecology Coalition!

13. January 2024 5. March 2024 / News & Events

The Agroecology Coalition was set up in 2023 with the purpose of accelerating the transformation of food systems through agroecology. Oliver Oliveros (o.oliveros@agroecology-coalition.org), long-time Friend of Prolinnova, is Coordinator of the Agroecology Coalition and head of the Coalition Secretariat. The Coalition has a number of functions including the co-creation and exchange of knowledge, seeking to …

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Prolinnova–Kenya at UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai

15. December 2023 15. December 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

With the facilitation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Vincent Mariadho – Prolinnova–Kenya Coordinator – participated in the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Expo City 2020, Dubai, on 30 November to 5 December 2023. The event is an annual global summit convened by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) …

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Prolinnova–Kenya at UNDP AFCIA 2023 workshop in Philippines

15. December 2023 15. December 2023 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

On 17–19 October 2023, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) took part in an Adaptation Fund Climate Innovations Accelerator (AFCIA) workshop hosted in Manila, Philippines, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Two representatives from each of the 44 grantees in Cohorts 1 and 2 funded by AFCIA attended the workshop. Vincent Mariadho, PK Coordinator, and Lucious Achacha, World …

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