Policy Influencing Worskhop: Institute for Natural Resources/Prolinnova South Africa!
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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 …
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 …
Local innovation in beehive construction & queen replacement
The overlooked knowledge: exploring knowledge circulation in the scaling up of local innovation: the case of beehive construction and queen replacement in Enebsie District, Ethiopia, by Ashagrie Getnet (MSc thesis, Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands), 2008
CCAA final keynote address: Emerging responses to climate change in pastoral systems
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Training Ethiopian farmer innovators to do their own documentation in Ambo, Ethiopia
Farmer innovators who are piloting a Local Innovation Support Fund (LISF) in Ambo, Ethiopia, were recently trained in documenting their own experimentation and innovation. The LISF pilot is coordinated by the Ethiopian Rural Self-Help Association (ERSHA), a local NGO that is part of the Prolinnova–Ethiopia network. The facilitators of the training were Fetien Abay, a …
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Thesis on: The effects of Prolinnova-FAIR on Gender Relations and Gender Equality in Kikanwa Environmental Association and in Nalukonge Community Incentives Association
by Zsofia Anna Bossanyi (PDF file; size : 5.2 MB)
Ecological agriculture in Uganda and the contribution of farmer innovation
by Helen Kranstauber, VU University Amsterdam, 2009 (PDF file; size : 1.1 MB)
RELATORIO-Encontro sobre Inovação local Xai-Xai, Novembro de -2009
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