PROTA objectives

The PROTA programme aims to condense the existing wealth of information to manageable proportions (4,000 review articles grouped into 16 commodity groups) and to make this knowledge synthesis readily and freely available by means of webdatabases, a multi-volume handbook, and a series of CD-Roms. The distribution is done in close cooperation with the EU/ACP Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

Through stakeholder consultations per commodity group, recommendations are subsequently formulated on promising species and technologies, development opportunities, research gaps, thesis subjects, conservation needs and policy measures aimed at industry, extension and rural development, education, research, and government.

The PROTA pilot projects capitalize on specific chances for impact on people who depend on those plants. In partnership with grassroots organizations, promising species or technologies are tried out in local communities in an effort to improve livelihoods.

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