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SOLLINKKA: SOcial Learning LINKing Knowledge with Action

12. February 2023 / Climate Change & PID, News & Events

Prolinnova and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) collaborated for three years (2013-15) in “Social Learning LINKing Knowledge with Action” (SOLLINKKA). This fitted into CCAFS’ theme “Integration for decision-making”, which aimed at making knowledge useful for policymakers and ensuring effective engagement of rural communities in research. In SOLLINKKA, Prolinnova …

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Consultative workshop on perception of change and identification of local innovations in Tahtay Maichew

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID, Program Information and News, Ethiopia Country Platform

A consultative workshop was held in Tahtay Maichew, Tigray Region of Ethiopia, to explore together with farmers and other stakeholders the local perceptions of change and to identify local innovations in response to change. The workshop was organised by Prolinnova-Ethiopia (PE), particularly by its member organisations Best Practice Association (BPA) and Institute for Sustainable Development …

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Capacity building in farmer-led joint experimentation in Tahtay Maichew, Tigray Region

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID, Program Information and News, Ethiopia Country Platform

Capacity building for farmers and other stakeholders who are engaging in joint experimentation was held in Tahtay Maichew District of Tigray Region. The workshop was organised by Best Practice Association (BPA) and Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) in collaboration with other Axum Prolinnova Platform members – innovator farmers, Aksum University, District Agricultural Office, Zonal Food …

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Farmers’ Perceptions of Changes and their Local Innovation in Response thereto in Enebse Sar Medir, Ethiopia: Survey Report

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID, Ethiopia Country Platform

In Enebse Sar Medir District of Amhara Region in central Ethiopia, an study was made of how smallholder farmers and their communities perceive the main changes affecting their livelihoods, including (but not only) climate change, and how they respond to these changes. The study was carried out by the Alem Berhan Self Help Community Based Development …

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Community perceptions of and creative response to change in Tahtai Maichew, Ethiopia

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID, Ethiopia Country Platform

In Tahtai Maichew District of Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, an study was made of how smallholder farmers and their communities perceive the main changes affecting their livelihoods, including (but not only) climate change, and how they try to respond and innovatively adapt to these changes. This study formed part of the work of the …

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CLIC-SR Ethiopia Project Field Report of Enebse Sar Medir (ESM)

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID, Program Information and News, Ethiopia Country Platform

Prolinnova-Ethiopia conducted a learning workshop in Enesbe Sar Medir (ESM), Mertule-Mariam, one of the project sites where CLIC-SR project is implemented. The learning workshop involved exchanging ideas with local people on perceived changes in recent years affecting their livelihoods and local innovations in response to these changes. After conducting the learning workshop, a study team was …

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Scaling up Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs)

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

This is a summary of scenarios for integrating complementary mechanisms for funding innovation by smallholders into mainstream agriculture development and research in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda – an output of the “transition” phase of FAIR (Farmer Access to Innovation Resources). Action research in eight countries in Africa and Asia under the umbrella of Prolinnova …

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Influencing policy toward farmer-led innovation approaches

24. July 2022 / Climate Change & PID

Within the framework of the CLIC-SR project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the four Country Platforms involved – in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – examined their past experiences in trying to influence policy to become more favourable towards farmer-led research and innovation approaches. They drew lessons which should guide them in their policy-dialogue activities in efforts …

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