Regional Platforms

West African Farmer Innovation Fair (FIPAO) 2015

30. October 2022 / West & Central Africa, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events

The West African workshop on approaches to farmer-led research (12–14 May 2015) and the West African Farmer Innovation Fair (15–16 May) took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. To update everyone with the latest news about these two events, a communication committee including the Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Association of Burkina Faso, INADES Formation, Yam Pukri and ETC …

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Action-Learning on Food Sovereignty and Nutrition in Communities of Northern Potosí

24. July 2022 / Andes Regional Platform

Authors: Maria C. Omonte Ferrufino, Fernando Vidal Gonzalez and Yesmina Cruz Agudo Cochabamba, Bolivia, October 2014   ​The “Implementation of an Action-Learning process on food sovereignty and nutrition for marginal rural zones of the Central Andes of Bolivia” Project, funded by McKnight Foundation and executed by World Neighbours Bolivia involved the active participation of mothers, …

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Local innovation in the development of smallholder agriculture: a literature review and case study in the Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia

24. July 2022 / Andes Regional Platform

Markus Frank, BSc thesisUniversity of Kassel / German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical AgricultureWitzenhausen, Germany. 2012(PDF file; size : 1.8 MB) The first part reviews literature on different approaches to understanding and supporting local innovation, and situates local innovation processes and concepts in the context of agricultural innovation models. The case study in the second part …

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Manuel pour la capitalisation de I’lnnovation Paysanne

29. October 2022 / Farmer-Led Documentation, West & Central Africa, Resources, PROFEIS

Ce manuel (2008) est destiné aux paysans innovateurs et aux agents de développement qui travaillent avec les communautés à la base. Il fournit quelques orientations méthodologiques pour caractériser les innovations et capitaliser les processus d’innovation. L’initiative de la capitalisation peut être prise par l’innovateur lui même, seul ou en partenariat avec les acteurs extérieurs. Mais …

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