On 3 September 2017, a Farmer Innovation Fair was held at the Youth Association for Rural Development (YARD) offices in Ngogwe Sub-County in Buikwe District of Uganda. It was supported by HORIZONT3000, the Austrian Organization for Development Cooperation, under the auspices of their programme on “Enabling Rural Innovation (ERI) East Africa Project” in Uganda and …
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L’année 2016 a connu plusieurs activités par la plateforme nationale Prolinnova-Cameroun : La participation aux rencontres internationales L’identification des innovations paysannes La célébration de la journée de l’innovation paysanne. Lisez le rapport d’activités en detail ici.
This was conducted largely through implementation of targeted participatory processes involving key stakeholders at community, local and national levels, as part of activity implementation under the CLIC–SR project. Consequently, the following publications were generated and disseminated: A booklet of innovations for climate change adaptation and mitigation; Policy brief on innovations for climate change adaptation and …
Prolinnova–Uganda gives an update on its work in completing the CLIC–SR work in 2016, including two examples of farmer-led joint experimentation that were documented as case studies. Also a booklet and a policy brief were published on innovations for climate change adaptation in Uganda. Numerous dialogues with policy- and decision-makers in research, academia, government and …
Prolinnova–Kenya has provided an update on its activities in 2016. These include: i) implementation of two projects – Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research (CLIC–SR) and Promoting local innovation in Food and Nutrition Security (Proli-FaNS); ii) presentation of a paper at the Africa Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia; iii) various sharing, learning …
The network in the Philippines has made a brief report on its activities in 2016. PDF file; 1.21 MB
The full PROFEIS-Senegal report for 2016 is in French. As a brief English summary, the main activities reported are: Four National Steering Committee meetings held with the basic objective of organising the IPW, reporting and following up on the Global Resilience Consortium (GRC) platform. Organisation of IPW 2016, which was one of the main activities …
A local newspaper article on the launching of the 3-year Proli-FaNS project.
Fetien Abay – who co-coordinated the Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) work in Ethiopia which led to the development of Prolinnova–Ethiopia – continues to promote the role of women in innovation. Last week at Mekelle University, where she is Professor in Plant Breeding and Seed and recently appointed Vice-President for Research and Community Outreach, …
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En décembre 2016, AGRECOL Afrique organisait sa quatrième édition des journées de promotion de l’agriculture biologique. Cet événement, financé par l’ONG Broederlijk Delen, visait à sensibiliser les agents du développement et la population à l’importance de préserver les semences paysannes pour une agriculture durable. L’événement a été une réussite, mais l’équipe organisatrice a dû faire …
