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 …
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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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Report on workshop to build the capacity of resource persons involved in CLIC-SR in participatory innovation development (PID) and climate-change adaptation (CCA), 16–18 Oct 2012, Nairobi, Kenya The Prolinnova–Kenya training workshop on PID & CCA aimed to strengthen capacity to support farmer-led joint innovation building on local creativity, in order to reinforce community resilience to change, …
PDF file; size: 187 KB In the Axum area of Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, Prolinnova-Ethiopia explored local perceptions of changes affecting their livelihoods and local innovation in response to these changes. This short paper describes the process of and experience in making this study.
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Stakeholders in agricultural research and development gathered at the end of Dec 2012 in Addis Ababa to review experiences in piloting Local Innovation Support Funds and to discuss how this approach could be mainstreamed. PDF file: 5.9 MB
Djibril Thiam, coordinator of PROFEIS-Senegal, joined the Week on Agricultural Innovation in Africa (WAIA) in Nairobi, Kenya, in the last week of May 2013. His impressions (in French) of the series of events, including the Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair (EAFIF), can be found in the wikispace: http://aisa2013.ilriwikis.org/Home
As part of the partnership between Prolinnova and CCAFS, PROFEIS-Senegal has characterised a local socio-organisational innovation developed by villagers in Senegal to deal with seasonal hunger, documented in both English (Characterising a local innovation: Fighting seasonal hunger in the village of Pout Dagné, in the district and rural community of Notto in Thiès Region) and French (Caractérisation d’une innovation locale: Lutte …
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