Kenya Country Platform

About the Kenya Country Platform

Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) is a network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government research and extension organisations, farmer organisations, universities and community-based organisations (CBOs). It came together to provide a multistakeholder platform (MSP) to learn about promoting farmer-led innovation processes. This was initiated in 2007 with the goals to recognise the dynamics of indigenous knowledge and to enhance …

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PID training workshop in Kenya

On 8–11 October 2024, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) hosted a training workshop in Kisimu to introduce and reinforce concepts participatory innovation development (PID) and its institutionalision to people – some of them new to the Prolinnova network – who are involved in the ELI-FaNS project (Expanding the promotion of Local Innovation for Food Security and healthy Nutrition …

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Farmer Research Network Convening & National Agroecology Symposium in Kenya

Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) coordinator, attended two events in October and November 2024 in which he presented Prolinnova’s approach and achievements: the Farmer Research Network (FRN) Convening organised by McKnight Foundation and the first National Agroecology Symposium hosted by PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Kenya. The FRN Convening included a visit to local innovators …

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Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut

The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …

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Report on International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference 2024

The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …

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New Friends of Prolinnova: Suman Manandhar and Violet Kirigua

The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) has recently named two new “Friends of Prolinnova” – although they are both actually “old” friends who have been engaged in the network for many years and hopefully will be for many more years to come: Suman Shekhar Manandhar is Chief Technical Advisor with NAF Seeds Private Limited and is …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair and NaviNut project featured in Appropriate Technology

The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine features two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …

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Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023

The Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023 presents the platform’s achievements, challenges and perspectives as regards its 2023 activities including identifying, documenting and sharing innovations and PID results, capacity strengthening and organisational development, supporting the commercialisation of farmer innovations, networking and policy dialogue as well as resource mobilisation and management of Local Innovation Support Funds/Facilities (LISFs). It …

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Prolinnova participation in GAIA on grassroots technological innovation in agroecology

The 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation is supporting the creation of a new network on grassroots technological innovation in agroecology, now called Grassroots Agroecology Innovation Assembly (GAIA). On behalf of the international Prolinnova network, Makonge Righa from World Neighbors, the host NGO of Prolinnova-Kenya, is involved in creating this new network and …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference in Nairobi

On 8–10 April 2024, farmer innovators from 11 African countries coming together in person – and were joined online by farmer innovators from Asia – to share their innovations at the Kilimo Grand Resort in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was funded by the 11th Hour Project of the Schmidt Family Foundation and was coordinated by …

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

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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