¿The concept paper explains the rational for basing improvements in ecologically-oriented agriculture (EA) and natural resource management (NRM) on local knowledge, experimentation and innovation. It outlines the main types of activities involved in a global programme to promote this approach: identification and documentation of local innovations; establishing farmer¿extensionist¿scientist partnerships to further develop local innovations; exchange and analysis of methods to promote local innovation processes; training; networking; and institutionalisation of the approach into regular research, extension and teaching programmes. It also shows the linkages between PROLINNOVA and
two other proposed programmes: InterDev [...]; PolicyNet"