(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …

Increasing attention is being given to indigenous innovation in agriculture - the process by which farmers develop new …

Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning … from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways … of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and …

little success. They had recognized the need to build on the indigenous knowledge (IK) and initiatives of smallholder farmers …

innovation. …

Indigenous knowledge and local initiatives are usually documented and disseminated by outsiders, who make their own … interpretations in the process. Participatory Video (PV) provides an opportunity for rural people to document their own knowledge and …

Promoting Local Innovation (PROLINNOVA), which was held in March 2004 at the Furra Institute of Development Studies in Yirgalem …-stakeholder partnerships to promote participatory research and development that starts with recognizing the dynamics of indigenous knowledge …