24 september - 26 september
PROTA is an international, not-for-profit foundation. It intends to synthesize the dispersed information on the approximately 7,000 useful plants of Tropical Africa and to provide wide access to the information through Webdatabases, Books, CD-Rom’s and Special Products. The objectives are to bring the published information, now accessible to the resourceful happy few, into the public domain. This will contribute to greater awareness and sustained use of the ‘world heritage of African useful plants’, with due respect for traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights. The Second PROTA International Workshop is a forum for actors in extension and rural development, industry, vocational training, higher education, research and government, and for investors/donors to interact in order to:
· appreciate the great diversity of the plant resources of tropical Africa through commodity group reports and plant resources reports;
· seize opportunities for application of PROTA’s information in extension work, education and training, research, industry and government policies;
· demonstrate the usefulness of PROTA’s information for the intermediate target groups, and the successful application for the benefit of the end-users in rural communities;
· help in setting priorities for the Second Implementation Phase 2008-2012 and ‘pledging’ support for the programme