Press Releases
- Ubuntu Natural™: Fair Trade African magic mixed with cutting edge green technology
- Elizabeth Dlamini, herbalist and skincare adviser to a whole generation of local women has skin that glows. She beams as she explains why. “Here in the Royal Kingdom of Swaziland we are proud of our plants... (
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- Afriplex / PhytoTrade Partnership
- A new partnership for Fair Trade and environmentally sustainable natural plant extracts from Africa.
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- Ubuntu Natural™: Lipids of Africa
- Developed through the partnership between Aldivia® and PhytoTrade Africa, Ubuntu Natural lipids are a range of cold-pressed, Fair Trade and environmentally sustainable natural oils from Africa. Ubuntu Natural lipids retain all the goodness of virgin oil...(pdf 82k)
- Natural Products = Natural Profits
- IUCN-SA and PhytoTrade Africa launch new partnership initiative, NATURAL FUTURES.(pdf 41k)
- Maruline®, the first African active botanical ingredient from fair trade and sustainable sources
- Maruline®, a new active botanical ingredient from Africa, is 100% natural marula oil with enhanced antioxidant properties obtained through a patented process. (pdf 97k)
- PhytoTrade links with the PROTA programme
- PhytoTrade establishes links with PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa), a programme co-ordinated by the University of Wageningen. The PROTA-UK office is hosted by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the UK. With the first volume in a 16-part PROTA handbook series about to be released, the connection is well timed. (pdf 113k)
- IUCN-SA PhytoTrade Africa partnership launched
- IUCN-SA, country office of the World Conservation Union and PhytoTrade Africa have launched their new Natural Products partnership at the third World Conservation Congress in Bangkok (17th - 25th November 2004) the general assembly of IUCN members. (pdf 41k)
- People and Plants International and PhytoTrade Africa sign partnership agreement
- Tony Cunningham of People and Plants International and Gus Le Breton of PhytoTrade Africa signed a partnership agreement to share knowledge and skills to further enhance the operations of PhytoTrade Africa. (pdf 35k)
- Frank Taylor receives lifetime membership of PhytoTrade Africa
- Frank Taylor, the renowned non-timber forest product expert has been awarded an honourary lifetime membership of PhytoTrade Africa, the Southern African Natural Products Trade Association. (pdf 31k)
- Big bucks from Baobabs
- PhytoTrade Africa has commissioned targeted research and development on baobab pulp as a nutritional ingredient and flavouring in food products. (pdf 20k)
- PhytoTrade Africa in new partnership with Aldivia
- At Natural Products Europe, held in Amsterdam on 4-6th June 2003, PhytoTrade Africa signed a ground-breaking partnership with the French specialist lipids company, Aldivia S.A.. (pdf 20k)
- SANProTA Breaks New Ground
- A new trade association for rural producers in the natural products sector was launched 6 September 2001 at the Botswana International Trade Fair in Gaborone.
- SANProTAs Aims and Activities
- Visitors to Southern Africa almost always remark on the same three striking characteristics of the region....
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