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Criteria for identifying innovations in Proli-FaNS project

21. November 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS / Proli-SAM, Program Information and News

During the Proli-FaNS inception workshop in 2016, the participants from the five Country Platforms involved (in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya) brainstormed about criteria for identifying and prioritising local innovations to be documented and used as entry points for farmer-led participatory research in the coming three years. See the file (in English and …

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Integration of PID into university curricula

11. January 2023 / Integrating PID into teaching material & curricula

At the International Partners’ Workshop (IPW) in Cambodia in 2006, Prolinnova partners decided to give more attention to integrating the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach into higher education. They asked the Centre for International Cooperation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (CIS-VUA), then part of the International Support Team (IST), to facilitate creation of a Curriculum Development component. The aim …

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New Prolinnova initiative in Africa to enhance food & nutrition security

30. October 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS / Proli-SAM, News & Events

On 14–18 Nov 2016, the Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security (Proli–FaNS) project was launched with a meeting of all partners in Accra, Ghana. Proli-FaNS is a 3-year project supported by Misereor / Katholische Zentralstelle e.V. (Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid) (KZE, Germany) through a grant of the “One World No Hunger” …

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Farmers Innovation Fair in Bolivia

24. July 2022 / Bolivian Innovation Fair

PROLINNOVA Bolivia and its partners are organizing its first Farmers Innovation Fair to celebrate the InternationalFarmers Innovation Day on November 29, 2015. The purpose of the fair is to make visible the importance of thecontribution of farmers to research and agricultural and social development in the country. The description of theevent can be found here and the registration form here.

International Farmer Innovation Day – 29 November each year!

24. July 2022 / Farmer Innovation Fair

Prolinnova–Burkina Faso is celebrating IFID at a workshop on soil quality with a group of farmers that work on improving degraded soils. The idea is to bring together different actors in the field of agriculture. It will be an interactive event in which local innovations will be identified, thus providing an opportunity to celebrate farmers’ innovativeness. …

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Farmer-led Research Workshop introduction

12. May 2023 / Farmer-led Research Workshop, West & Central Africa, FLR Workshop and WAFIF

On 12–14 May 2015, the West African Workshop on Approaches to Farmer-Led Research and Development in Francophone West Africa was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop was an initiative of a diverse group that included civil-society organisations partnering with Germany-based Misereor, members of the Prolinnova/PROFEIS[1]network in the region, the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research …

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Prolinnova at Workshop on Mobilising Youth in CGIAR Research Programs

24. July 2022 / Youth and PID, News & Events

The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the African Development Bank and the CGIAR Consortium organised a workshop on 8-9 September 2015 in Montpellier, France, on “Mobilizing Youth within Phase 2 CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs)”. One member of the Prolinnova International Secretariat, Ingrid Flink, took part in this meeting, representing both the Prolinnova network and the Royal Tropical …

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Policy brief: LISF enhances local innovation in Ethiopia

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

This 4-page brief is based on the experience of Prolinnova-Ethiopia in piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) at three sites in the south, centre and north of Ethiopia. It shows how farmer-managed funds for local innovation and adaptation initiatives can be handled effectively at local level, add value to production and enhance local capacities. It draws attention to major implications for …

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West African Farmer Innovation Fair (FIPAO) 2015

30. October 2022 / West & Central Africa, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events

The West African workshop on approaches to farmer-led research (12–14 May 2015) and the West African Farmer Innovation Fair (15–16 May) took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. To update everyone with the latest news about these two events, a communication committee including the Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Association of Burkina Faso, INADES Formation, Yam Pukri and ETC …

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West African Farmer Innovation Fair & workshop on farmer-led research / Foire et atelier sur l’innovation par les paysan/nes en Afrique de l’Ouest (FIPAO)

30. October 2022 / West African Farmer Innovation Fair, information

Traduction française ci-dessous On 12–16 May 2015, Burkina Faso hosted a West African workshop on approaches to research by and with smallholder farmers and a West African Farmer Innovation Fair – Foire de l’Innovation Paysanne en Afrique de l’Ouest (FIPAO) – in Ouagadougou. This was an initiative of the Prolinnova/PROFEIS network in collaboration with AgriProFocus …

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