Country Platforms

Progress in the Ethnovet Project Oct 2019–Mar 2020

The 3-year project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Livestock Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” (Ethnovet) is being implemented in northern Ghana with funds from Misereor (Germany). The project coordinator Foster Awuni in ACDEP (Association of Church-based Development Projects) reports on the first half-year of partnership with local ethnovet practitioners, the Animal Research Institute of the …

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Training in Benin on social entrepreneurship based on local innovation / Formation sur l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale

Voir la traduction française ci-dessous The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of the Netherlands Organisation for Internationalisation of Education (Nuffic) is supporting tailor-made training to strengthen the capacity of teachers in agricultural technical colleges in North Benin to support social entrepreneurship based on local innovation for food and nutrition security. This project is a collaborative effort …

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Rapport annuel 2019 / Annual report 2019

Au cours de l’année 2019, la Plateforme Pays (PP) du Burkina Faso a continué à renforcer son fonctionnement à travers les organes de gouvernance mis en place au cours de l’année précédente. La PP a poursuivi également la mise en œuvre des projets Proli-FaNS (Promouvoir l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle) et FaReNe …

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Prolinnova-Tanzania annual report 2019

The national coordinator of the Country Platform (CP) in Tanzania, Zacharia Malley, reports briefly on CP activities in 2019, including Prolinnova-related activities of member organisations focused on farmer-managed seed systems. The 3-page annual report can be found here.

Farmer innovator Joe Ouko featured in webinar “Hunger for Justice”

    Photo by Laurens van Veldhuizen            Photo by Chesha Wettasinha Joe Ouko, a farmer innovator in Kenya and a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), was a panelist in a webinar hosted by A Growing Culture (AGC). This was one in a webinar series on the theme “Hunger for Justice”. Joe shared his …

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Prolinnova Uganda’s 2019 annual report

The 2019 report of the Prolinnova–Uganda Country Platform (CP) presents its key achievements, challenges and perspectives. Although the CP is constrained in terms of external funding, interactions between the members and key stakeholders in agricultural research and development in Uganda continue through information exchange and networking, as well as participation in activities led by CP …

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Prolinnova-Mozambique annual report for 2019

Despite many challenges and adversities in 2019, the network in Mozambique managed to implement some activities with funds mainly from FAO and CIC-Batá (Centre for Initiatives for Cooperation, a Spanish NGO). These activities consisted in supporting and strengthening local innovation processes in some farmer associations, and disseminating previously identified and proven local innovations to other …

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Prolinnova–Ghana 2019 report

In 2019, the Ghana Country Platform (CP), hosted by ACDEP (Association of Church-Based Development NGOs), coordinated and took part in the Misereor-funded Proli-FaNS (Promoting Local Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security) project, which ended in September 2019 and now coordinates the follow-on project SULCI-Fans (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security). …

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Activities of Prolinnova–Cameroon in 2019

Le rapport annuel de Prolinnova-Cameroun pour l’année 2019 présente ses principales activités en matière d’identification et de documentation des innovations locales, de documentation de l’expérimentation conjointe menée par les agriculteurs et de mise en réseau, y compris la planification d’un foire de l’innovation paysanne au Cameroun en 2020. Prolinnova–Cameroon’s annual report for the year 2019 …

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PK’s 2019 annual report

The coordinator of Prolinnova–Kenya (PK), Vincent Mariadho, has made an overview of PK’s main activities in 2019, most of which were funded through Misereor in the Proli-FaNS (Promoting local innovation for food and nutrition security) project. He reports also on PK’s participation in the International Partners Workshop (IPW) in Senegal and the inception workshop for …

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