Catalogue d’innovations locales au Bénin / Catalogue of local innovations in Benin

8. October 2022 / Benin Country Platform, News & Events

Ce « Catalogue d’innovations locales » est un produit du projet financé par Nuffic « Renforcement de capacités des enseignants des lycées agricoles pour soutenir l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle » (2020–22). Le projet a été réalisé dans le nord du Bénin par la Faculté d’agronomie de l’Université de Parakou (Bénin), l’Institut …

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Study visit by PID trainees from Sudan & South Sudan to Kenya

24. July 2022 / Sudan Country Platform, Kenya Country Platform

For professionals in two universities in Sudan and South Sudan, Nuffic (Netherlands) is supporting tailor-made training in farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID), an approach that puts small-scale farmers at the centre of the research and development process. In order to facilitate practical learning about PID, the trainees were hosted by Prolinnova–Kenya to visit its Kisumu …

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Rapport annuel 2021 de la plateforme Prolinnova-Burkina Faso

24. July 2022 / Burkina Faso Country Platform

La Plateforme-Pays (PP) Prolinnova Burkina Faso, au cours de l’année 2021, a assuré la poursuite de l’extension de son dynamisme dans les domaines bien ciblés que sont : le développement du partenariat, le renforcement de capacités, la mise en oeuvre et le suivi des projets, la concertation reguliére et la partcipation à des rencontres sous-regionales et …

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Friend of Prolinnova Oliver Oliveros heading GAFF

24. July 2022 / information

Oliver Oliveros – who helped Prolinnova emerge over 20 years ago as a Global Partnership Programme of the GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) and who is a Friend of Prolinnova – has just been appointed Interim Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF). See https://futureoffood.org/insights/leadership-transition-plan-for-the-global-alliance-announced/?redirect_to=295  Oliver and his family had …

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UNDP approves Prolinnova–Kenya’s funding proposal

31. October 2022 / Kenya Country Platform

Joe Ouko with his goat-meal innovation (Credit: Laurens van Veldhuizen) In early 2022, Prolinnova–Kenya won a grant from the Innovation Small Grants Aggregator Project (ISGAP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The 18-month project will focus on the local innovation developed by the small-scale farmer Joe Ouko: Locally Formulated Dairy-Goat Meal (LOFODA-G-Meal). The aim …

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Atelier de clôture du programme de formation sur le DPI au Bénin / Closing workshop of the PID training programme in Benin

25. July 2022 / Benin Country Platform

Atelier de clôture du programme de formation sur le DPI au Bénin Closing workshop of the PID training programme in Benin Participants of the closing workshop (photo: KOBOUROU MEDIA) Participants à l’atelier de clôture (Photo : KOBOUROU MEDIA) Les 24 et 25 mars 2022, s’est tenu à Parakou (Bénin) l’atelier de clôture du programme de formation …

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Briefs on local innovation & PID in Ghana

24. July 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Ghana Country Platform

  During the SULCI-FaNS project, the partners in Prolinnova–Ghana documented local innovations to improve food and nutrition security of small-scale family farmers in the Upper East and North East Regions. Five innovations and related farmer-led joint experiments are described in the following 3-page briefs on: Nutritious porridge flour for infants Fattening small ruminants and cattle …

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Farmer-Led Documentation

24. July 2022 / General Information

La documentation menée par paysans (FLD) est un processus d’autonomisation dans lequel les communautés locales jouent le rôle principal dans le processus de documentation. Les résultats sont utilisés par les membres de la communauté pour l’apprentissage au sein de la communauté et pour l’échange entre les communautés (partage horizontal) et entre les communautés, les agents …

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FaReNe and the participatory approach / FaReNe et l’approche participative

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

The 51-page publication “Le projet FaReNe et l’approche participative” (in French only) is the product of a reflection on experiences made by Prolinnova partners in Burkina Faso and Mali in supporting farmer-led research networks to promote local innovation and farmer-led joint research as well as in facilitating the use of Local Innovation Support Funds (LISFs). …

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