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Prolinnova participation in 6th AFAAS Extension Week 2023

22. November 2023 22. November 2023 / West & Central Africa, Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

The 6th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW 2023) was held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 5–11 November, co-hosted by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development and the Nigerian Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (NIFAAS). The AAEW is a biennial flagship event of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), which brings participants …

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Prolinnova-Asia Partners Workshop May 2023

20. June 2023 20. June 2023 / Asia & Pacific, Cambodia Country Platform, Nepal Country Platform, South India Country Platform, Philippines Country Platform

On 26 May 2023, representatives of Prolinnova Country Platforms in Asia met in a virtual workshop organised by Sharad Rai, the regional coordinator in Asia, and Suman Manandhar, co-chair of the Prolinnova Oversight Group. The 6-page report on the meeting can be found here.

Annual report 2022 from West & Central Africa

13. June 2023 19. June 2023 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Cameroon, Mali Country Platform, Senegal Country Platform, Benin Country Platform, Ghana Country Platform

The Prolinnova West & Central Africa Subregional Platform is happy to announce its 2022 annual report, which highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and country-platform level. These include the identification, documentation and sharing of local innovations as well as participatory innovation development (PID) processes, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also describes …

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2022 report from Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform

11. June 2023 11. June 2023 / Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

The 2022 annual report on the activities of the Prolinnova subregional platform in Eastern and Southern Africa highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and Country Platform levels. The achievements include identifying, documenting and sharing local innovation processes (and local innovations), facilitating farmer-led participatory innovation development, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also …

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Asian regional platform 2022 report

4. June 2023 4. June 2023 / Asia & Pacific

This report provides an overview of activities that took place at the country and regional level in 2022 within the Prolinnova–Asia regional platform. The year was mainly focused on the re-establishment and activation of Country Platforms (CPs) in Cambodia, Nepal and South India. Efforts were also made to raise funds through concept note submission and …

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New POG member / Nouveau membre du POG : Franklin Avornyo, Ghana

31. May 2023 31. May 2023 / West & Central Africa, News & Events

The Country Platforms (CPs) in West & Central Africa have elected a new person to take the seat for their region in the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG): Franklin Avornyo from Ghana. Franklin is an animal nutrition scientist in the Animal Research Institute (ARI) under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana. He …

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Proli-GEAFaSa project 2020–2022: rapport final / final report

16. May 2023 16. May 2023 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform

Le rapport final du projet de Promotion de l’innovation locale en Gestion de l’Eau dans l’Agriculture Familiale au Sahel (Proli-GEAFaSa) a pour but de partager l’information sur le déroulement des activités clefs du projet au fil des trois années d’activité (janvier 2020–décembre 2022) de même que les principales leçons apprises pour les projets futurs. Proli-GEAFaSa …

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New SRC in WCA introduced in “Appropriate Technology”

12. May 2023 12. May 2023 / West & Central Africa

Paul Jimmy, the new SRC in West & Central Africa, was introduced in the March 2023 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: Prolinnova names new Subregional Coordinator for West & Central Africa (pp22–23).

Innovative Water Management Forum in Senegal / Forum sur la gestion innovante de l’eau au Sénégal

7. March 2023 7. April 2023 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, PID in water management, Senegal Country Platform, News & Events

Innovative Water Management Forum in Senegal On 30–31 January 2023, the Proli-GEAFaSa (Promoting local innovation in water management in family farming in the Sahel) project held a forum in Thiès, Senegal, on agricultural water management in the Sahel to provide space for different actors in research and advisory services to discuss their role in processes …

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SULCI-FaNS project in Africa completed!

13. February 2023 13. February 2023 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Eastern & Southern Africa, Cameroon, Ghana Country Platform, Kenya Country Platform

The 3-year “Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security” (SULCI-FaNS) ran from 1 October 2019 to 30 November 2022, with funding from Misereor/KZE Germany. The project aimed to strengthen the innovative capacities of rural communities, particularly of women, and to increase local resilience to change. It also contributed to building platforms …

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