Host organisation: Peermade Development Society (PDS)
Contact persons:
TJ James: james.tj6@gmail.com
Hubby Mathew: hmathew@hotmail.com
About Prolinnova–South India Innovations and practices developed by farmers and local communities for addressing location-specific needs, based on practical knowledge and local resources, are gaining more and more importance and significance, especially in the present agrarian crises of climate change, agricultural biodiversity erosion and food insecurity. Prolinnova–South India, a multistakeholder platform formed in 2020, intends …
Two articles from the Prolinnova network were published in the March 2025 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: From research to action: collaborating with agropastoralist women in dryland Africa, in Appropriate Technology 52(1): 36–39, by Patricia Kiprono, Brigitte Kaufmann, Paul Jimmy Kouété & Ann Waters-Bayer, with photos by Jamal Omar Integrating local innovations and multiplying …
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Two Prolinnova articles were published in the December 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: Replicable innovation for rural farming: a solution to cassava harvesting challenges in Kerala and beyond, by James TJ & Stebin K (AT 51(4)). This can be found here. Sadia Issifu – farmer innovator and women’s banker in Walewale, North Ghana …
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This 4-page report provides an overview of activities that took place in the Asian Country Platforms (CPs) in Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines and South India and at regional level in 2024 within the Prolinnova–Asia network. The year was mainly focused on re-activating the Nepal CP and ensuring continuing contact among the CPs in the region …
This report provides an overview of activities that took place at the country (Cambodia, Nepal, South India, Philippines) and regional level in 2023 within the Prolinnova–Asia regional network. A special focus in 2023 was on re-establishing and activating the Nepal Country Platform. You can find the 4-page report here.
Jony Jos, India: farmer in Prolinnova Oversight Group The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) would like to announce that Jony Jos, a small-scale farmer from Tripunithura in Kerala State, India, has taken on the role of representing farmer organisations (FOs) in the POG starting from 1 December 2023. He is successor to Elizabeth Mpofu, founder and former …
On 26 May 2023, representatives of Prolinnova Country Platforms in Asia met in a virtual workshop organised by Sharad Rai, the regional coordinator in Asia, and Suman Manandhar, co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group. The 6-page report on the meeting can be found here.
In the March 2023 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine, Prolinnova–South India published the article Farmers’ varieties mitigate and adapt to climate change in South India, by TJ James, Hubby Mathew & Stebin Sebastian (pp18–20).
The coordinator of the CP in South India, TJ James, reports on CP activities 2022, operating completely with internal ressources. Find the report here.
Here are some links to publications of Prolinnova–South India partners on farmer innovation: The commercialization of farmers’ innovation: farming innovators and rural entrepreneurs. GFAR Impakters (2019) https://impakter.com/commercialization-of-farmers-innovation-linking-farming-innovators-and-rural-entrepreneurs Land to lab approach for developing and disseminating location-specific innovations. 2nd international symposium on agroecology: scaling up agroecology to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, 3–5 April 2018, FAO, …
