www.prota.org - PROTA’s mission
- ️Tue Mar 27 2007
Website hosted by 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. Search for information on hundreds of useful plants of tropical Africa in our PROTAbase: The objectives are to bring the published information, now accessible to the resourceful happy few, into the public domain. The direct target groups for the PROTA information are the decision-makers in government, private sector, research, education and rural development, whose decisions affect millions of people depending for their livelihood on the plant resources. The end-users are the people in Tropical Africa depending directly on the plant resources, mainly farmers and forest communities, but also workers in cottage industries, among them many women. PROTA will bring development opportunities based on plant resources actively and immediately to the attention of the direct target groups for realizing impact on the end-users. PROTA / CTA International Workshop and Investors’ Forum This meeting will highlight the compilation and application of information on useful African plants and the past and future roles of PROTA. On the first day participants review PROTA's achievements of the past 5 years. On the second day they focus on PROTA’s plans and investment opportunities for the comming 5 years. On the optional third day participants exchange their experiences with the implementation and upscaling of pilot projects. More information and to register
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Protabase 
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 Agricultural College of Botswana uses PROTA books in their curriculum.
Main event: 24 – 25 September 2007
Side events: 26 September 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
The 2- or 3-day meeting will bring together representatives from rural development and extension, vocational training, higher education, research and government agencies.