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Scaling up local capacity to innovate: Year 1 report

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events

Year 1 of the 3-year Misereor-funded project Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security (SULCI-FaNS) was completed in September 2020. Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya are engaged in strengthening the innovation capacities of small-scale farmers, particularly women and women’s groups, to improve food and nutrition …

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PID, LISF & farmer-network experiences in agroecological intensification in Mali

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

The Farmer-led Research Network (FaReNe) project is a joint project of Prolinnova partners in Burkina Faso and Mali with financial support from the McKnight Foundation and technical support from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), host of the Prolinnova international secretariat. It looks at how best to organise and use farmer-led innovation approaches, such as Participatory …

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2020 quarterly reports on Proli-GEAFaSa project

19. December 2022 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform

Rapports trimestriels sur le projet Proli-GEAFaSa 2020 Ces rapports portent sur les activités qui ont été mise en oeuvre au cours des trois premiers trimestres de l’Année 1 du projet de 3 ans « Promotion de l’Innovation Locale dans la Gestion de l’Eau en Agriculture Familiale au Sahel » (Proli-GEAFaSa), qui a démarré en janvier …

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FaReNe map “Research to impacts” 2015-19

11. February 2024 / West & Central Africa, FaReNe, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Mali Country Platform

The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crops Research Program made a one-page “Research to Impacts Map” to describe the achievements of the FaReNe project in the first phase (2015–19). It summarises the project as follows: “The project aims to strengthen and support farmer-led research networks in which smallholders lead joint experimentation for agroecological intensification (AEI) building on …

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Troisième formation DPI au Bénin / Third PID training in Benin

24. July 2022 / Integrating PID into education, Benin Country Platform

Photo: Studio Mass, Benin Troisième formation DPI au Bénin Un troisième atelier virtuel dans le cadre du programme de formation sur mesure sur l’innovation locale et le développement participatif de l’innovation (IL/ DPI) s’est tenu à Parakou, au Bénin, le 17 décembre 2020. Cet événement était le suivant d’une série d’activités du projet de formation …

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LISF presented at SULCI-FaNS annual workshop

24. July 2022 / Piloting Local Innovation Support Funds / Facilities

For partners in the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling up Local Innovation in Food and Nutrition Security) workshop in November 2020, Ann Waters-Bayer from the International Support Team presented experiences with Local Innovation Support Facilities/Funds (LISFs) made in previous years within the Prolinnova community of practice (CoP). SULCI-FaNS partners, some of which are new to the CoP, plan …

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Deuxième formation DPI au Bénin / Second PID training in Benin

24. July 2022 / Integrating PID into education, Benin Country Platform, News & Events

En octobre 2020, le deuxième atelier sur le développement participatif d’innovation (DPI) s’est tenu virtuellement, comme le premier, en raison de la situation de COVID-19. C’était dans le cadre du projet “Renforcement de capacités des enseignants des lycées agricoles pour soutenir l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle“, financé par …

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Report on first year of FaReNe II

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

A 2-page report summarises the main activities and achievements during Year 1 in the second phase of the Farmer-led Research Networks (FaReNe) project in Burkina Faso and Mali, funded by McKnight Foundation.

Guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development

24. July 2022 / Gender & PID

In 2017–18, Chesha Wettasinha from the International Support Team (IST), based at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), worked together with Mona Dhamankar, also from KIT, in developing guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development (GALID). This initiative was supported by FAO and supervised by Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer, Social Policies and Rural Institutions …

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Progress in the Ethnovet Project Oct 2019–Mar 2020

30. October 2022 / Ethnovet Project, Ghana Country Platform

The 3-year project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Livestock Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” (Ethnovet) is being implemented in northern Ghana with funds from Misereor (Germany). The project coordinator Foster Awuni in ACDEP (Association of Church-based Development Projects) reports on the first half-year of partnership with local ethnovet practitioners, the Animal Research Institute of the …

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