If you are looking for exciting new ingredients, flavours or fragrances for your products, we can help you find them.
Our members and partners produce seed oils, fruit powders, plant extracts, herbal medicines and more, all derived from plants indigenous to Southern Africa and with a wide variety of applications in the food, drink, cosmetic and other industries. (See Our Products).
All our products have a powerful consumer proposition. Not only do they benefit from a rich African heritage, but they also have a strong ethical and environmental story that can enhance a brand’s CSR credentials.
PhytoTrade Africa can help you with:
We will help you to identify the right natural products and ingredients for your needs and link you with the right suppliers. We will work with you and the supplier to ensure you get the volumes you need, when you need it.
If you need organically certified ingredients we can put you in touch with producers who already have certification or work to gain certification for a new supplier.
We will provide you with all the information you need on the ethical and environmental credentials of our products and help you to build a strong CSR story for your product.
PhytoTrade Africa has an extensive library of published papers and hard-to-find “grey” literature on the natural products of Southern Africa. They cover technical, scientific and patent-related issues. We will work with you to find the information you need to develop and market your product.
In certain circumstances we are able to contribute to research and market development costs, including the attainment of regulatory approvals.
PhytoTrade Africa has an extensive marketing toolkit at your disposal including photographic and video imagery, case studies and PR stories contact press@phytotradeafrica.com.
We will work with you to ensure your use of Southern African natural products is legitimate and respects traditional knowledge and folklore. We can advise you on issues of national and international intellectual property, biopiracy legislation, and “Access and Benefit Sharing” laws in Southern Africa.