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Webinar series about institutionalising PID in research institutes & universities

29. July 2025 / Integrating PID into education, News & Events

In 2023, Prolinnova held three webinars to provide an opportunity for its Community of Practice to share experiences in linking with university & research actors in promoting the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach. Webinar 1 (19 April 2023): “Case studies on PID activities implemented in Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in collaboration with university and research …

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NaviNut action research featured in March 2025 issue of Appropriate Technology

23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The highly collaborative approach taken by the NaviNut project in Benin and Kenya integrated the knowledge of agropastoralist women about caring for young children with the knowledge of local food processors and community healthworkers and the knowledge of African and German researchers in various disciplines. NaviNut engaged in action research in which the local women …

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Another opportunity for institutionalising PID in Limpopo Province

11. March 2025 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS / Proli-SAM, News & Events, South Africa

A farmer innovation day held in Limpopo Province at Mashite village in Ga-Mphahlele, Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality. The event was facilitated by the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), University of Limpopo (UL), University of Venda (UNIVEN) and the South African branch of the Eastern and Southern Africa small-scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF SA) on …

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Farmer Research Network Convening & National Agroecology Symposium in Kenya

2. December 2024 / FaReNe, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

Vincent Mariadho, Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) coordinator, attended two events in October and November 2024 in which he presented Prolinnova’s approach and achievements: the Farmer Research Network (FRN) Convening organised by McKnight Foundation and the first National Agroecology Symposium hosted by PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Kenya. The FRN Convening included a visit to local innovators …

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Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut

27. November 2024 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …

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Report on International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference 2024

26. November 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, West & Central Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair and NaviNut project featured in Appropriate Technology

25. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …

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Webinar 3 report from series “Linking with universities & research in PID”

30. October 2024 / Integrating PID into education, Senegal Country Platform, News & Events

Report available on Webinar 3, focussed on “Networking and resource mobilisation to support the process of integrating PID concepts and practices into universities and research institutions”. In 2023-24, the Prolinnova network held a series of three webinars for network members to share experiences in integrating the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach into instititions of research …

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Articles from Benin & Ghana in June 2024 issue of Appropriate Technology

23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

Two articles were published in June 2024 in the Prolinnova section of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol 51, No. 2): Action funds stimulate mutual learning about child nutrition in Benin by Paul Jimmy, Honorat Edja, Brigitte Kaufmann & Ann Waters-Bayer Ghanaian experience in helping women farmers improve sales of a local innovation by Joseph Nchor …

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