Our vision A world in which women and men farmers play decisive roles in agricultural research and development for sustainable livelihoods

PROLINNOVA Making farmer led R&D the norm

ROLINNOVA PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically P builds on good practices in oriented agriculture and natural resource participatory research and development (R&D) management (NRM) focused on promoting joint innovation processes led by farmers (including livestock keepers, forest PROLINNOVA is an international network that dwellers and other natural resource users): fosters local innovativeness and joint processes • discovering how farmers develop new ideas to make of innovation development. It focuses on the better use of natural resources dynamics of indigenous knowledge and learning how to enhance innovation capacities • supporting farmer led joint experimentation, linking local and outside knowledge of local people so that they can adjust more quickly to changing conditions, developing and • integrating this approach into institutions of research, adapting their own site appropriate systems and advisory services and education institutions of NRM for food security, sustainable • stimulating policy change to enable this approach livelihoods and a sound environment. • increasing farmers' influence in decision-making about R&D, including managing funds to support local

Country networks and coordinators innovation processes.

PROLINNOVA partners are active in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, usually coordinated by NGOs: Linking decentralised networks Bolivia: Vecinos Mundiales Burkina Faso: Réseau MARP In each country, stakeholders in agriculture and NRM : Centre d'Études et de Développement Agricole design their own national or subnational network(s) Cambodgien (CEDAC) and activities, tailored to their specific situation. Cameroon: NGO Collective for Rural Development and Food Security (COSADER) The coordinating units, usually NGOs, are guided Ecuador: EkoRural by national steering groups composed of diverse : Poverty Action Network Ethiopia (PANE) stakeholders, e.g. from other NGOs, farmer : Association of Church Development Projects (ACDEP) organisations, development projects and institutions India: Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research & Education (INHERE) of research, extension and learning. : World Neighbors (WN) At international level, representatives from the country : Association pour le Développement des Activités de Production et de Formation (ADAF Gallé) networks share and learn from each other's : Associação para o Desenvolvimento das experiences, and plan and implement joint initiatives, Comunidades Rurais (ADCR) e.g. related to local innovation and climate change, Nepal: Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and resilience-building, farmer-led documentation, Development (LI-BIRD) curriculum development, gender mainstreaming, : Centre Régional d'Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture (CRESA) HIV/AIDS, community managed innovation funds, : Development Resource Initiative (DRIVE) and participatory monitoring and evaluation. Peru: Red de Accion en Agricultura Alternativa (RAAA) Philippines: IIRR Asia Office : Agrecol Afrique South Africa: Institute of Natural Resources (INR) : SOS Sahel Sudan : Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) : Environmental Alert (EA)

For more information: PROLINNOVA International Secretariat c/o Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Mauritskade 63, 1092 AD Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel: +31-20-5688711 Email: [email protected] Website: www.prolinnova.net