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The annual Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) took place on 8–11 May 2009 in Pokhara, Nepal, at the foot of the beautiful Annapurna range of the Himalaya Mountains. This year’s IPW was shorter than normal, because it came immediately after the Nepalese Farmer Innovation Fair (2–4 May) and the Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium (4–7 May), which …

Nepal hosted Prolinnova International Partners Workshop on 8–11 May Read More »

The Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG) met in Nepal on 7–8 May 2009 for its 8 th face-to-face meeting since its establishment in February 2005. The current POG Chair, Scott Killough from World Neighbors welcomed the new members elected in early 2009: Magagi Saidou from Niger (for francophone Africa), Hector Velasquez from Bolivia (for Latin America), …

8th Prolinnova Oversight Group meeting held in Nepal on 7–8 May Read More »

The Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium (IAPS) was held 4-7 May 2009 in Nepal. The symposium was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture)–Asia, ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) and Prolinnova (PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management) in collaboration with the Prolinnova-Nepal partners LI-BIRD (Local Initiatives for Biodiversity …

Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium concluded!!! Read More »

A Nepalese Farmer Innovation Fair was organised on 2–4 May 2009 by Prolinnova Nepal, with LI-BIRD (Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development) taking the lead, supported by partners in the National Working Group – Ecoscenter (Chitwan), Practical Action Nepal (Kathmandu), Institute for Agriculture and Animal Sciences (Rampur), Tuki Sunkoshi (Sindupulchowk) and the Department of …

Nepalese Farmer Innovation Fair draws national and international visitors Read More »

The 2009 Prolinnova International Partners Workshop (IPW) took place on 8-11 May in Pokhara, Nepal. It allowed participants to visit cases of Participatory Innovation Development (PID) in the field and to share and learn on the basis of concrete experiences of the Country Platforms (CPs). The workshop was hosted by the Prolinnova-Nepal National Steering Committee, …

International Partners Workshop 2009 in Nepal Read More »

Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research and Development edited by Ian Scoones and John Thompson, with foreword by Robert Chamberspublished by Practical Action, London Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world’s most pressing issues – climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years …

Announcing two new books on farmer-first innovation Read More »

As of 1 February 2009, a new country-level initiative has become part of the Prolinnova Community of Practice: Prolinnova–Nigeria. In late October 2007, the International Secretariat in the Netherlands received an expression of interest from a group of people from different governmental and non-governmental organisations in northern Nigeria to launch such an initiative. They proposed …

Welcome to Prolinnova – Nigeria! Read More »

An invited paper on Promoting gender equality and empowering women through livestock (PDF file: 1.29MB), co-authored by Ann Waters-Bayer and Brigid Letty, was presented by Ann at a symposium on The Role of Livestock in Developing Communities. This symposium, organised by the University of the Free State (UFS) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), …

World Conference on Animal Production, Nov 2008, Cape Town, South Africa Read More »

4-7 May 2009 • Kathmandu, Nepal An international symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on southern and eastern Asia, was held on 4–7 May 2009 in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture)–Asia, ICIMOD (International Centre for integrated Mountain Development) and Prolinnova (Promoting …

Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium – First call for abstracts Read More »

The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a conference on “Advancing Agriculture in Developing Countries through Knowledge and Innovation” on 7–9 April 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The conference provided a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences on knowledge and innovation for development among …

Pro-poor innovation highlighted at IFPRI conference Read More »