Kenya Country Platform

Joe Ouko with his goat-meal innovation (Credit: Laurens van Veldhuizen) In early 2022, Prolinnova–Kenya won a grant from the Innovation Small Grants Aggregator Project (ISGAP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The 18-month project will focus on the local innovation developed by the small-scale farmer Joe Ouko: Locally Formulated Dairy-Goat Meal (LOFODA-G-Meal). The aim …

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    The GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation) has posted a blog Local farmer innovation: an entry point for farmer-led joint research written by Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya Coordinator, about an innovation by the small-scale Kenyan farmer Rebecca Auma Dero. She modified and improved an introduced technology to make her own sack-garden irrigation kit …

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The 2021 annual report from Prolinnova–Kenya highlights the major activities undertaken in the two action-learning sites in Kisumu (Kisumu West and Nyakach Sub-Counties) and Makueni (Mukaa Sub-County) primarily within the SULCI-FaNS project and various activities at national level. The report includes a detailed account of the visit to Kenya made by members of Prolinnova–Sudan together …

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The coordinator of Prolinnova–Kenya, Vincent Mariadho, reports on the Country Platform’s activities in 2020, focused primarily on implementation of the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project, including documentation and global sharing of experiences in farmer-led participatory innovation. You can find the report here.

Vincent Mariadho, PK coordinator, presenting Joe Ouko’s locally formulated dairy goat meal Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) joined other organisations around the world to share its knowledge and approach in an online event on 19–23 October 2020. The virtual Horn of Africa & Sahel Knowledge Share Fair under the theme of “Promoting innovation to build resilience against climate …

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