The national technical coordinator of Prolinnova–Tanzania, Zacharia Malley, reports briefly on the activities of the Country Platform at national and regional level in 2018, plus a self-assessment of network functioning. The 3-page report with annex on local innovation and experimentation to combat the fall armyworm can be found here. ]]>
The coordinator of Prolinnova-Cambodia, Ms Tong Chantheang, gives a brief account of activities mainly by CEDAC, host of the Country Platform, in the year 2018. The 2-page report can be found here.
The Prolinnova-South Africa coordinator reports very briefly on activities related to promoting local innovation in the country and subregion in 2018, which included backstopping other Country Platforms (CPs) and coordinating multi-CP project-acquisition efforts. See the one-page report here.
The activities of the Prolinnova Country Platform in Mali in 2017 were conducted in the framework of two projects: one is funded by MISEREOR (PROFEIS: Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) and the other funded by McKnight Foundation (FaReNE: Farmer-led Research Networks). Read the 6-page English summary of the 2017 annual report here. …
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda, FAW) has recently appeared in Africa, where it is threatening food security, as it infests maize, which is a staple crop in many countries. Farmer innovators in Ethiopia and Tanzania (among surely many others) are trying out different ways to combat this new pest. The 4-page report “Towards farmer-led bio-management of …
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The Prolinnova-Ethiopia coordinator, Ms Beza Kifle, compiled a report on the activities of the Country Platform within the Proli-FaNS (Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security) project covering the period August-November 2018. The report can be found here.
September 2018 The May–July 2018 progress report for Proli-FaNS – coordinated by ACDEP/Ghana – gives an overview of activities and achievements of the Prolinnova Country Platforms in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya; of the subregional coordinators for West & Central Africa and for Eastern & Southern Africa; and of the International Support Team.
Prolinnova-Ethiopia (PE) is one of the five Country Platforms (CPs) that is involved in on-the-ground activities in Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security (Proli-FaNS). The CP coordinator Ms Beza Kifle reports here on the PE activities and achievements in Year 2 of this project.
In May 2018, Swiss scientists from TPA (Tropical and Public Health Institute) made a quick inventory of some local innovations in animal health treatments in Burkina Faso and Ghana with a view to studying their effectiveness in terms of health and productivity. TPA and the Prolinnova platforms in the two countries are exploring possible collaboration, focusing on anti-parasitic and …
A poster in French on the project “Renforcement des réseaux de recherche dirigés par les agriculteurs” / “Strengthening farmer-led research networks” (FaReNe) under the umbrella of the multistakeholder Prolinnova network can be found here.
