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Funding the blue revolution: Worldwatch features LISF-supported farmer innovator

A blog by Molly Theobald from the Worldwatch project Nourishing the Planet features the funding of local innovation in water management, including an example from the piloting of Local Innovation Support Funds supported by Rockefeller Foundation under the Prolinnova umbrella:  “As climate change worsens, and fresh water availability grows more erratic, the food security of …

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Communicating local knowledge and innovation

Documenting farmer innovation creates a new image of agricultural producers. In the paper “Communicating farmers’ knowledge”, Awa Faly Ba of IIED Afrique, the NGO that supports PROFEIS activities in West Africa, explains how PROFEIS and AGRIDAPE have collaborated to create and share important messages about local creativity in improving smallholder agriculture. AGRIDAPE is the French magazine on low-external-input and sustainable …

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Documenting farmers’ innovation

Documenting farmer innovation creates a new image of agricultural producers. In the paper “communicating farmers’ knowledge”, Awa Faly Ba of IIED Afrique in Senegal, the NGO that support PROFEIS activities in West Africa, explains how PROFES and AGRIDAPE – the Frnech magazine on low-external-input and sustainable agriculture (LEISA) – have collaborated to create and share important messages about local …

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