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- 1. Keeping Africa Informed PROTA’s relevance for sustainable development • PROTA|Your guide to the use of African plants
- 2. Keeping Africa Informed Our mission… Developing and maintaining a user-oriented plant resource information system and widely disseminating and promoting its use through key strategic actions and partnerships. 12.5 years en route ... ... after 15 years of PROSEA Framing the Plant diversity legacy From PROSEA books to interactive PROTA4U
- 3. Keeping Africa Informed Commodity groups ... State of affairs 1: Cereals and pulses (2006) 2: Vegetables (2004) 3: Dyes & tannins (2005) 4: Ornamentals 5: Forages 6: Fruits 7(1): Timbers 1 (2008) 7(2): Timbers 2 (2012) 8: Carbohydrates 9: Auxiliary plants 10: Fuel plants 11(1): Medicinal plants 1 (2008) 11(2): Medicinal plants 2 11(3): Medicinal plants 3 11(4): Medicinal plants 4 12: Spices & condiments 13: Essential oils & exudates 14: Vegetable oils (2007) 15: Stimulants 16: Fibres (2012) c. 9000 plant species ... Halfway
- 4. Keeping Africa Informed PROTA4U: an interactive user-friendly database • More than 10,000 records • Validated articles covering 4000 species
- 6. Keeping Africa Informed Distribution of publications PROTA and partners have already distributed more than 14,000 books & 6500 CD-ROMs English and French
- 7. Keeping Africa Informed Knowledge synthesis Stakeholder Consultations Utilization/End- user impact The three-step approach…for maximum impact
- 8. Keeping Africa Informed Pilot projects on promising species & technologies • 6 ‘Vegetable’ projects directly reaching over 500 farmers (65% female, 35% male) • 2 ‘Dye & tannin’ projects directly reaching over 300 farmers and craftsmen (60% female, 40% male)
- 9. Keeping Africa Informed Vegetable diversification in Kenya: Spider plant About 150 farmers trained in production, utilization and marketing High demand in urban markets
- 10. Keeping Africa Informed New commercial crop in Benin: Dye sorghum About 150 farmers trained in production, utilization and marketing DGIS-WUR partnership: • Possibilities to increase productivity • Inventory of diversity
- 11. Keeping Africa Informed More impact stories ... From melon and dye plants in Madagascar to Hibiscus in Burkina ... and teaching materials in Botswana and Kenya See: Annual report 2010, Promising African plants
- 12. Keeping Africa Informed What users and reviewers say ... • ‘The PROTA books helped us to get support from the ADB for our agricultural training programme in 5 States in Nigeria’ (Lecturer in higher education, Nigeria) • ‘The Rural development Agents (RDAs) took training based on the books of PROTA. Farmers who took advice from the RDAs have shown good improvement in their production and productivity’ (Extension worker, Eritrea) • ‘The yields obtained in my farm are the tangible proof of the importance of the handbooks’ (Farmer, Benin) • ‘... Indispensable resource ... Impressive and invaluable ...’ (Economic Botany) • ‘... Ambituous but immensely valuable ...’ (The Horticulturist) • ‘The colours of Africa’ (Spore)
- 13. Keeping Africa Informed The case of some timbers ... Information trickles down slowly 1994 published Information presently still used by: Intsia bijuga (merbau) Gonystylus bancanus (ramin)
- 14. Keeping Africa Informed Conclusions for Programmes like PROSEA and PROTA ... • long-duration ambituous programmes • produce high-quality information that should be safeguarded and kept user- friendly • Impact is huge but takes time and is difficult to quantify
- 15. Keeping Africa Informed What we would like to start ... Ornamentals • c. 800 species? • Woody plants, flowering herbs, foliage herbs, succulent plants
- 16. Keeping Africa Informed What we would like to start ... Fruits • c. 600 species • Non-timber forest product • Domestication opportunities • Food security
- 17. Keeping Africa Informed What we would like to start ... Root & tuber crops (Carbohydrates) • c. 250 species • Important in Africa • Food security Dioscorea Ensete
- 18. Keeping Africa Informed What we would like to start ... • Insertion of PROSEA information in the PROTA database system • Safeguarding the interactive database ... Whatever happens ...