On 12–14 May 2015, the West African Workshop on Approaches to Farmer-Led Research and Development in Francophone West Africa was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop was an initiative of a diverse group that included civil-society organisations partnering with Germany-based Misereor, members of the Prolinnova/PROFEIS[1]network in the region, the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research …
New technologies coming from both international and national agricultural research institutions are often a poor match for smallholder farmers’ priorities. Moreover, many of the “top” technologies developed by these research institutions cannot be widely spread because smallholders cannot access and/or afford them. Putting smallholder farmers in the centre of agricultural research would help to overcome …
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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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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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