The Country Platform (CP) in Ghana has been very active in the past year. The National Steering Committee (NSC), the technical support team (Working Group) and the local multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) at the total of six action-learning sites continued to support the two main projects: Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate in Food and Nutrition …
The Farmer-Led Innovation Network (FLIN) was established in 2018 to share knowledge and experiences and provide a collective advocacy voice for farmers leading innovation processes. Currently, FLIN is made up of 20 organisations, including governmental and non-governmental organisations, research institutes, the levy board, farmer organisations and advisory services. FLIN was recognised as the UK Prolinnova …
Innovative Water Management Forum in Senegal On 30–31 January 2023, the Proli-GEAFaSa (Promoting local innovation in water management in family farming in the Sahel) project held a forum in Thiès, Senegal, on agricultural water management in the Sahel to provide space for different actors in research and advisory services to discuss their role in processes …
The 2022 annual report by Prolinnova-Kenya (PK) highlights its achievements in engaging Maseno University to include the participatory innovation development (PID) approach in its revised curriculum for the School of Agriculture. The report also describes PK’s activities related to documenting and encouraging local innovation and PID, capacity strengthening, and networking and policy dialogue to scale …
In the GFAR Talks session online on 1 March 2023, Vincent Mariadho from Prolinnova–Kenya explained Prolinnova’s perspective on how universities can meet small-scale farmers’ needs by integrating the approach of recognising local innovation and facilitating farmer-led participatory research engaging university students and staff. Vincent discussed with Jim French, Secretary General of GCHERA (Global Confederation of …
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Prolinnova–Nepal convened a half-day Country Platform (CP) meeting on 12 December 2022 in Hotel Greenwich Village in Kathmandu, organised by the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) Co-chair Suman Manandhar and the Asia Regional Coordinator Sharad Rai. The participants included past and new members of the Nepal network from government institutions, NGOs, universities and private consulting firms, …
The 3-year “Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security” (SULCI-FaNS) ran from 1 October 2019 to 30 November 2022, with funding from Misereor/KZE Germany. The project aimed to strengthen the innovative capacities of rural communities, particularly of women, and to increase local resilience to change. It also contributed to building platforms …
Researched & written by Nageb Ibrahim Bakheit “The real classroom is outside. Get out into it!” A. Introduction: A Sudanese proverb goes “He who forgets his past is lost” (Ibn Oaf translation, 2008). Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) might be old, but need not be outmoded. ITKs were cost-effective, locally available, and mostly organic in nature, …
Prolinnova-Sudan field study leads to catalogue of ITK/local innovations Read More »
In the December 2022 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine, there are two articles written by people involved in the Prolinnova network in South Africa: Using Mohlopi tree roots to make caffeine-free coffee in Limpopo Province, South Africa, by Ernest Letsoalo, Richard Chuene & Believe Hlahla (pp 18–19) Rural South African women collaborate with engineer for better …
Two Prolinnova–South Africa articles in “Appropriate Technology” Read More »
The November 2022 meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) of Prolinnova–Ghana included two days of field visits to the Walewale and Bongo action-learning sites before the actual meeting was held at the office of ACDEP, the host organisation for the Country Platform. The field visits gave NSC members an opportunity to see Prolinnova activities …
