Contact: (Ms) Brigid Letty (bletty@inr.org.za) / Richard Chuene (richardchuene1979@gmail.com)
The Institute of Natural Resources (INR) is the facilitating NGO for Prolinnova-South Africa, which aims to build and strengthen partnerships between the various stakeholders involved in agricultural research and development in South Africa. The platform in South Africa was launched in 2004. Projects that have been undertaken by Prolinnova-South Africa have included: Farmer Access to …
The Limpopo Task Team from Prolinnova South Africa presented two posters at the South African Society for Agricultural Extension (SASAE) conference that was held in August 2024. This was an opportunity to show case the joint experimentation work of the platform with smallscale farmers. The poster about ethnoveterinary innovation can be found here while that …
A farmer innovation day held in Limpopo Province at Mashite village in Ga-Mphahlele, Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality. The event was facilitated by the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), University of Limpopo (UL), University of Venda (UNIVEN) and the South African branch of the Eastern and Southern Africa small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF SA) on …
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The Prolinnova Limpopo Task Team has documented social innovation associated with the Tjiane Drop-In Centre, which can be accessed here.
The Limpopo Task Team made good use of a number of events towards institutionalising the PID approach within target organisations. A report documenting the process is available here.
The Prolinnova-South African 2023 report describes the achievements, challenges encountered and lessons learned by the partners in this multistakeholder platform during the year 2023. It also highlights the platform’s future perspectives.
Through the ELI-FaNS project, a workshop on participatory innovation development (PID) was held at the African Enterprise Conference Centre in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province on 10-13 June 2024. The objective of the workshop was to build a common understanding of key concepts and involved participants from Limpopo and KZN. Joe Nchor, the ELI-FaNS project …
In the March 2024 edition of the Appropriate Technology magazine, three articles submitted by Prolinnova Country Platforms were published: An article about joint experimentation related to household poultry that has been initiated in South Africa An article about a national farmers day in Ghana where farmer innovators received awards An article from Uganda about how …
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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, …
On 22 – 27 October 2023, Prolinnova’s International Partners Workshop was held in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The workshop report as well as a pdf file containing all the presentations are now available: Workshop report Compilation of presentations
“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) and has the following objectives: 1. Small-scale farmers (especially women and youth) actively innovate to improve …
