Progress in the Ethnovet Project Oct 2019–Mar 2020

30. October 2022 / Ethnovet Project, Ghana Country Platform

The 3-year project “Promoting Ethnoveterinary Medicine for Sustainable Livestock Husbandry Practices in Northern Ghana” (Ethnovet) is being implemented in northern Ghana with funds from Misereor (Germany). The project coordinator Foster Awuni in ACDEP (Association of Church-based Development Projects) reports on the first half-year of partnership with local ethnovet practitioners, the Animal Research Institute of the …

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Integrating PID into education

5. September 2022 / Integrating PID into education

At the International Partners’ Workshop in Cambodia in 2006, Prolinnova partners decided to give more attention to curriculum development and the integration of Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approaches into higher education systems. They asked the Centre for International Cooperation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (CIS-VUA), then a partner in the Prolinnova International Support Team (IST), to facilitate …

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Training in Benin on social entrepreneurship based on local innovation / Formation sur l’entrepreneuriat social basé sur l’innovation locale

3. November 2022 / Integrating PID into education, Benin Country Platform

Voir la traduction française ci-dessous The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of the Netherlands Organisation for Internationalisation of Education (Nuffic) is supporting tailor-made training to strengthen the capacity of teachers in agricultural technical colleges in North Benin to support social entrepreneurship based on local innovation for food and nutrition security. This project is a collaborative effort …

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Progress in SULCI-FaNS project in first half-year / Avancement du projet au premier semestre

30. October 2022 / Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, News & Events

Traduction française ci-dessous This progress report describes activities and outputs achieved in the first half-year (1 October 2019–31 March 2020) of the SULCI-FaNS (Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security) project. At Country Platform (CP) level, these included: inception workshop; project stakeholder orientation in each of the four CPs involved in …

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Rapport annuel 2019 / Annual report 2019

24. July 2022 / Burkina Faso Country Platform

Au cours de l’année 2019, la Plateforme Pays (PP) du Burkina Faso a continué à renforcer son fonctionnement à travers les organes de gouvernance mis en place au cours de l’année précédente. La PP a poursuivi également la mise en œuvre des projets Proli-FaNS (Promouvoir l’innovation locale pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle) et FaReNe …

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Prolinnova multi-CP capacity strengthening in Horn of Africa

24. July 2022 / News & Events

A new Prolinnova project “From despair to hope – promoting women’s and youth innovation for food and nutrition security and community resilience in Sudan and South Sudan” was developed jointly by Chesha Wettasinha, International Support Team (IST) member based in KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands), Fetien Abay, long-time Prolinnova partner in Mekelle University in northern …

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Prolinnova-Tanzania annual report 2019

24. July 2022 / Tanzania Country Platform

The national coordinator of the Country Platform (CP) in Tanzania, Zacharia Malley, reports briefly on CP activities in 2019, including Prolinnova-related activities of member organisations focused on farmer-managed seed systems. The 3-page annual report can be found here.

Farmer innovator Joe Ouko featured in webinar “Hunger for Justice”

30. October 2022 / News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

    Photo by Laurens van Veldhuizen            Photo by Chesha Wettasinha Joe Ouko, a farmer innovator in Kenya and a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG), was a panelist in a webinar hosted by A Growing Culture (AGC). This was one in a webinar series on the theme “Hunger for Justice”. Joe shared his …

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Policy brief on supporting local innovation for household food & nutrition security

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

A 4-page policy brief on “Supporting local innovation for household food and nutrition security” draws lessons from experiences in the project “Promoting local innovation for Food and Nutrition Security” (Proli-FaNS). This project was implemented in five countries – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana – in the period 2016–19 and was funded by Misereor/Catholic …

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Brigid Letty from South Africa joins Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG)

24. July 2022 / News & Events

Brigid Letty is a South African agricultural development specialist and principle scientist with the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. She has a BSc in Agriculture (animal science), an MSc in range and forage science and a PhD in agroforestry systems from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Before joining INR in 2003, she worked for six …

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