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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Pour faire face au manque d’eau pour la culture du manguier, les paysans du village de Keur Ndiogou Ndiaye, dans le centre-ouest du Sénégal, ont mis au point une innovation qui permet de faire pousser des manguiers sans arrosage. L’innovation consiste à planter les manguiers dans des arbustes de Piliostigma reticulatum (Wolof: Nguiguis) qui vont …
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In May 2013 Prolinnova-Kenya hosted the Eastern Africa Farmer Innovation Fair in Nairobi, where farmers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda showcased their innovations. Numerous documents (blogs, photos, videos, reports etc) can be found here.
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