Country Platforms

Prolinnova-Ethiopia annual report for 2011

Brief summary of Prolinnova-Ethiopia (PE) activities in 2011, accompanied by New Strategic Directions for 2012 and beyond, compiled by the PE Secretariat at AgriService Ethiopia (ASE) on the basis of discussions in the PE Core Group.

Integrating PID into government extension systems

Fanos Mekonnen carried out research in Cambodia and Ethiopia (Tigray) into how participatory innovation development (PID) is being integrated into government extension systems. Her findings, showing how committed partners at the grassroots level can integrate a participatory approach into hierarchical government systems to improve smallholder agricultural development, are summarised in this 4-page Prolinnova brief.

Learning in innovation systems in South Africa

In South Africa (SA), the Prolinnova network is linked with the EU-funded JOLISAA (Joint Learning in Innovation Systems in African Agriculture) project through Brigid Letty, Institute of Natural Resources, coordinator of Prolinnova–SA and member of the JOLISAA–SA team. At a JOLISAA-SA workshop in late Jan 2012, extension agents and researchers involved in three cases of …

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Assessing the impact of grassroots innovation in agriculture

by Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & Maxwell Mudhara, Prolinnova-SA; presented at GLOBELICS International Conference, 15-17 Nov 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina (GLOBELICS:  Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation & Competence Building Systems)PDF File; size: 583 KB link to news and events page:http://www.prolinnova.net/category/categories/news-events