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Farmer-managed research funds highlighted at farmer organisation meeting

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

The Prolinnova International Secretariat presented experiences with piloting Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs) to representatives of African farmer organisations, European civil society organisations, research and the private sector at a workshop in Brussels, Belgium, on 27 September 2011. The workshop was organised by the Belgian NGO Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires (CSA) in the framework of PAEPARD …

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Pelum/Prolinnova FLD Pilots 2007

9. August 2022 / Farmer-Led Documentation, information

In 2007, three small farmer led documentation (FLD) pilots were implemented by participating organizations in the first FLD workshop (Kampala, Nov 2006). On this page you find a description of the pilot projects, including final activities reports. Africa 2000 Network, Uganda Africa 2000 Network-Uganda seeks to pilot a process in which farmer innovators will be …

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Policy Briefs

21. November 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS / Proli-SAM

Supporting local innovation for household food and nutrition security. April 2020 • PDF: 1 MB Soutenir l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle des ménages. Avril 2020 • PDF: 1.6 MB Combining local innovative capacity with scientific research. October 2016  • PDF: 185 KB Waters-Bayer A, Triomphe B & Oudwater N. 2013. Building on local dynamics: 5 policy recommendations …

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Useful links

2. November 2022 / Climate Change & PID

This list is intended to provide links to related networks, bibliographic sources, databases and other organisations that are in some way involved in the dynamics of indigenous knowledge, promoting local/ farmer innovation and institutionalisation of participatory innovation development (PID) approaches. While acknowledging that there are many other possible contacts and links to be added, especially …

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Pastoralist Innovation: Prolinnova at Future of Pastoralism conference

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

Some results of Prolinnova’s exploratory study into local innovation in the face of climate change were presented by Yohannes GebreMichael (University of Addis Ababa) from Prolinnova-Ethiopia at the recent conference on “The Future of Pastoralism in Africa”, held 21–23 March 2011 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was convened …

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