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Rockefeller Foundation supports new initiative in eastern Africa: CLIC-SR

  Drawing on its experiences of promoting farmer-led joint innovation, the international Prolinnova network is applying this approach in building local adaptive capacities and strengthening community resilience to change, including climate change (CC). Rockefeller Foundation has approved a proposal by the Prolinnova Country Platforms in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for a 3-year project that aims …

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About CLIC–SR Combining Local Innovative Capacity with Scientific Research: strengthening resilience to climate change:

  Drawing on its experiences of promoting farmer-led joint innovation that builds on the creativity of local people, the international Prolinnova network is applying this approach in building local adaptive capacities and strengthening community resilience to climate change (CC). This new project (2012–15) aims to: ·     Improve the capacity of smallholder communities, especially the women, to innovate and …

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Introducing 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. AttachmentSize …

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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GRASSROOTS INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE

Brigid Letty from the Institute of Natural Resources in South Africa, a member of Prolinnova-South Africa, attended the Globelics (The Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems)Conference in Argentina in November 2011. She presented a paper titled: Assessing the impact of grassroots innovation in agriculture (Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi & …

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Institutionalising PID

  2012   Institutionalising PID in agricultural extension: case study of Tahtay Machew Office of Agriculture in Ethiopia, by Fanos Mekonnen Birke & Ann Waters-Bayer, presented at Tropentag 2012 International Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Göttingen, Germany, 19-21 Sept 2012 Poster Paper Abstract Institutionalising PID into regional and subregional bureaux of agriculture in Tigray, report …

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