The action-research programme PROFEIS (Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal explores how embedding research and extension within farming communities enables a constructive exchange of experience and knowledge between farmers, extensionists and researchers. Relevant local innovations are identified, supported and jointly improved and disseminated to contribute to …
The full PROFEIS-Senegal report for 2016 is in French. As a brief English summary, the main activities reported are: Four National Steering Committee meetings held with the basic objective of organising the IPW, reporting and following up on the Global Resilience Consortium (GRC) platform. Organisation of IPW 2016, which was one of the main activities …
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In February 2015, Ms Assétou Kanouté, the national coordinator of the activities of PROFEIS (Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) in Mali, was named Special Advisor to Ms Assétou Migan, the Malian Minister for Scientific Research. This provides an excellent opportunity to integrate the concepts and approaches of promoting farmer innovation and farmer-led …
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As part of the collaboration between CCAFS and Prolinnova, Agrecol-Afrique – the NGO that coordinates the Country Platform in Senegal – organised a workshop in May 2013 on Participatory Innovation Development (PID) with a focus on farmer-led joint experimentation. This was held in Kaolack and gave government and NGO staff in the region of Kaffrine …
Djibril Thiam, coordinator of PROFEIS-Senegal, joined the Week on Agricultural Innovation in Africa (WAIA) in Nairobi, Kenya, in the last week of May 2013. His impressions (in French) of the series of events, including the Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair (EAFIF), can be found in the wikispace: http://aisa2013.ilriwikis.org/Home
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