International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) celebrated in Nepal

24. July 2022 / News & Events

International Farmer Innovation Day (IFID) was celebrated in Nepal on 29 November 2020 using the Zoom platform. The virtual event was organised by the Institute for Social and Environmental Research–Nepal with sponsorship from Interscaff Safety Training Solution Pvt Ltd. As invited speaker, Mr Hari Bahadur KC, Joint Secretary in Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock …

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Deuxième formation DPI au Bénin / Second PID training in Benin

24. July 2022 / Integrating PID into education, Benin Country Platform, News & Events

En octobre 2020, le deuxième atelier sur le développement participatif d’innovation (DPI) s’est tenu virtuellement, comme le premier, en raison de la situation de COVID-19. C’était dans le cadre du projet “Renforcement de capacités des enseignants des lycées agricoles pour soutenir l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle“, financé par …

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Prolinnova–Kenya in Horn of Africa & Sahel Knowledge Share Fair

20. October 2023 / Kenya Country Platform

Vincent Mariadho, PK coordinator, presenting Joe Ouko’s locally formulated dairy goat meal Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) joined other organisations around the world to share its knowledge and approach in an online event on 19–23 October 2020. The virtual Horn of Africa & Sahel Knowledge Share Fair under the theme of “Promoting innovation to build resilience against climate …

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Report on first year of FaReNe II

24. July 2022 / FaReNe

A 2-page report summarises the main activities and achievements during Year 1 in the second phase of the Farmer-led Research Networks (FaReNe) project in Burkina Faso and Mali, funded by McKnight Foundation.

About the Uganda Country Platform

18. July 2024 / Uganda Country Platform

Prolinnova–Uganda is an NGO-led initiative to develop a national learning network for the promotion of local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management (NRM). Prolinnova–Uganda was initiated in 2003, with the secretariat at Environmental Alert, an NGO. The programme seeks to: Set up an effective multistakeholder partnership programme in Uganda Set up lasting …

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Farmer-led joint research: Introduction

30. October 2022 / Farmer-led research

Farmer-led joint research with other actors in agricultural research and development is central to the Prolinnova approach. It builds on local innovation processes by farmers and is often referred to as “Participatory Innovation Development” (PID). Although PID is integral to all projects and initiatives under the umbrella of the Prolinnova network, some projects focus specifically …

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Guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development

24. July 2022 / Gender & PID

In 2017–18, Chesha Wettasinha from the International Support Team (IST), based at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), worked together with Mona Dhamankar, also from KIT, in developing guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development (GALID). This initiative was supported by FAO and supervised by Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer, Social Policies and Rural Institutions …

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