Since January 2013, Prolinnova-Kenya is working together with the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). This is the report on the activities in the first year of the collaboration.
In Tahtai Maichew District of Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, an study was made of how smallholder farmers and their communities perceive the main changes affecting their livelihoods, including (but not only) climate change, and how they try to respond and innovatively adapt to these changes. This study formed part of the work of the …
Community perceptions of and creative response to change in Tahtai Maichew, Ethiopia Read More »
On 29 November, Prolinnova-Cameroon celebrated the International Farmer Innovation Day with family farmers in Abong Mbang Region in the east of Cameroon. PDF file: 335 MB
PROFEIS-Senegal, coordinated by Agrecol Afrique, is a partner in the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme in West Africa. Together with the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA), they hosted a group visiting from Colombia, South America, in early September 2013 to the Kaffrine learning site of CCAFS. The role of PROFEIS-Senegal in …
Prolinnova-Ethiopia conducted a learning workshop in Enesbe Sar Medir (ESM), Mertule-Mariam, one of the project sites where CLIC-SR project is implemented. The learning workshop involved exchanging ideas with local people on perceived changes in recent years affecting their livelihoods and local innovations in response to these changes. After conducting the learning workshop, a study team was …
CLIC-SR Ethiopia Project Field Report of Enebse Sar Medir (ESM) Read More »
A local innovation identified by PROFEIS-Mali has been published by the FAO in its series on “Good practices for family poultry production”. The document describes the motivation of a young resource-poor farmer – 31-year old Mr Nouhoum Traoré – to innovate and gives specific details about the preparation and use of the clay incubator for …
Clay incubator: young Malian farmer shares his innovation worldwide Read More »
The Sept 2013 issue of the Baobab Magazine includes an article on joint learning in agricultural innovation in Kenya and another on social learning at the Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair in May 2013. Joint learning in agricultural innovation cases: Researchers are making advances in seed and fertiliser technologies, but creative solutions are also needed to …
Agrecol-Afrique was invited by REPAOC, a network of NGOs in West and Central Africa with base in Senegal, to present the work of PROFEIS-Senegal at a roundtable on the role of smallholder farmers in agricultural innovation. This was a policy-influencing event held on 1 August 2013 in Dakar in the framework of the EU-funded project INSARD (Including Smallholders in …
PROFEIS-Senegal presented at roundtable on smallholder-centred research Read More »
As part of the collaboration between CCAFS and Prolinnova, Agrecol-Afrique – the NGO that coordinates the Country Platform in Senegal – organised a workshop in May 2013 on Participatory Innovation Development (PID) with a focus on farmer-led joint experimentation. This was held in Kaolack and gave government and NGO staff in the region of Kaffrine …
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