Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair
The Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair (EAFIF) is part of the Week on Agricultural Innovation in Africa (WAIA) which will be held from 25th to 31st May 2013. The fair will be immediately followed by an International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (AISA). The fair will celebrate the creativity of Eastern African smallholder farmers – women and men – and give them public recognition.
The Eastern African Farmer Innovation Fair (EAFIF) is part of the Week on Agricultural Innovation in Africa (WAIA) which will be held from 25th to 31st May 2013. The fair will be immediately followed by an International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (AISA). The fair will celebrate the creativity of Eastern African smallholder farmers – women and men – and give them public recognition. This colourful event, with good media coverage, should call attention to the importance of farmer innovation in agricultural development, bring policymakers and the general public in Kenya in contact with farmer innovators, and provide an opportunity for the international participants in the AISA workshop to meet and engage with the innovators. The fair will be hosted by Prolinnova–Kenya and co-organised with the Netherlands-supported AgriProFocus (APF) network, CCAFS and other organisations concerned with smallholder agricultural development. It will involve farmer innovators identified by the Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs), the APF networks and farmer organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The purpose of the Fair is:
- To raise awareness and share information about how smallholder farmers are innovating
- To encourage innovation by smallholder farmers
- To disseminate smallholder farmers’ innovations
- To identify and draw attention to more endogenous innovations than are currently known
- To influence policy to promote smallholder farmer innovation.
Read more in the Innovations Fair invitation below.
