Since 2003, PhytoTrade Africa has been working in partnership with Aldivia, a specialist French lipids company based near Lyon that produces innovative natural and organic cosmetic ingredients using unique green chemistry. After extensive R&D, the partners developed the Ubuntu range of African natural lipid oils. A unique process has been developed to maintain the oxidative stability and antioxidant properties of the virgin African oils at the same time complying with the stringent microbiological and toxicological quality specifications required for international skin care formulations. PhytoTrade and Aldivia are both signatory to a charter that expresses their commitment to Fair Trade, organic, environmental sustainability, good governance and best practices.

Afriplex, based in Paarl in the heart of the Cape winelands, is a specialist South African plant extract manufacturer, and provides the beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and nutraceutical industries with a range of unique African plant extracts. Afriplex applies their technical and engineering excellence to formulate unique African products for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical sectors.  They represent the most extensive facilities on the continent for the processing of indigenous African plants that incorporate both scientific and product development activities. The company's unique technologies including patented processes that have been developed in South Africa in collaboration with key South African researchers and universities as well as joint venture programs with leading international research institutes. 

The Union for Ethical BioTrade was set up by a diverse group of companies and organisations.  The Union promotes ethical trade in products that come from biodiversity. It does this by supporting members in their efforts to meet a set of principles and criteria developed by the United Nations, including conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from biodiversity.

The BioTrade Initiative is UNCTAD's programme that supports sustainable development through trade and investment in biological resources in line with the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Convention's objectives are the conservation of biological diversity; sustainable use of its components; and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources.

The mission of IUCN, the World Conservation Union in Southern Africa is to “facilitate and strengthen an integrated approach for the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources and the conservation of biological diversity”. In partnership with PhytoTrade Africa, IUCN-SA has created the Natural Futures Programme that aims to enhance livelihoods and environmental sustainability through the development of a natural products sector in Southern Africa. The programme addresses market failures that hinder the emergence of this sector to diversify rural livelihood options and create economic incentives for improved natural resource management and focuses on increasing market access through certification, addressing trade issues, increasing awareness and strengthening SME markets for natural products.

PROTA is an international, interdisciplinary programme coordinated by Wageningen University, the Netherlands, with ten partner institutions in Africa and Europe. The programme's aims are simple, though ambitious: to provide an up-to-date information system on the plant resources of tropical Africa, by combining existing knowledge and making it readily accessible.

People and Plants International (PPI) is an innovative new network of 40 practitioners of applied ethnoecology and sustainable resource management working in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. We are dedicated to the managed use and conservation of plantlife in landscapes of high biological diversity. Incorporated in New York in 2004, PPI is building on the 12-year joint project of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), UNESCO, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, UK, which developed a unique foundation of expertise, cutting-edge methodologies, and a global action network. This partnership, also entitled the “People and Plants Initiative” officially came to an end in December 2004.

CPWild - Commercial Products from the Wild. Research on Indigenous Plant Domestication and Commercialisation in Southern Africa.