Accra’s Daily Mail has a long and detailed article reporting that a large international meeting on Moringa is about to take place in that city, on 16-18 November. The Moringaceae have a home page here. The main useful species is Moringa oleifera, a tree which is native to India but now widely grown in the tropics. It has a network all to itself, Moringanews, which is organizing the meeting, but other species may also have potential. The main focus of the get-together seems to be the use of the leaves as a green vegetable, and how setting standards can aid in marketing this product, but really the adjective “multi-purpose” could have been invented for this plant. CTA, CDE and the GFU are providing support.
Daily digests from the workshop are online http://www.moringanews.org/news_en.html
bonjour je cherche des partenaires financiers pour la protection des la bio diversite dans la plantation des arbres de moringa au congo pour la protection du bassin du congo
sinceres collaboration
Bonjour a vous and I will write in english hoping it will be OK.
In case you would like a message in French please let me know and I wil try.
Moringanews is the right plavce to get connected to people involved with Moringa (http://www.moringanews.org/maillist.html)
You might want to Moringanews secretariat: http://www.moringanews.org/contact.html
The GFU has recently placed on line a revised version of a donor database (October 2007). The information provided in this database intends to give a picture of the donor agencies which include underutilized plant species into their portfolio. When browsing through the information please keep in mind that the mandate and portfolio of each of the funding agencies listed is often much broader than the one described here; the survey has been conducted considering the needs of the community dealing with underutilized species.
Each of the agencies listed is associated with the funding opportunities offered.
Here the link: http://www.underutilized-species.org/donors/about_donor.asp
Paul
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Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
Via dei Tre Denari 472/a
00057 MACCARESE (Fiumicino)
Rome, Italy
e-mail: underutilized-species@cgiar.org
tel: +39 06 6118-302
fax: +39 06 61979661
http://www.underutilized-species.org
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we as an organization wish to write and inform about our agricuitural activities here in yobe state, damaturu nigeria west africa.
know at presant we have moringa leaves in commacial quantity but no buyers, which lead to wastage of the commodity.
therefore, we as an organization are requesting for any organization willing to buy should contact us please.
Dear Sosido and all,
Should you be interested in writing and informing other parties about your involvement and interest with Moringa (and any other underutilized species) please consider the message below that we generaly use to invite in sharing information.
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The Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species (GFU) is involved in Policy, Information and Awareness raising – more information is available on this brochure (http://www.underutilized-species.org/documents/PUBLICATIONS/gfu_brochure_english.pdf) and by visiting our web portal.
We invite you to share your experience with underutilized species with others worldwide.
Amongst the ways to share information, all with the intention to foster networks and create more visibility for the individuals and their efforts dealing with underutilized species, I have listed some below:
WHO IS DOING WHAT
A database we are compiling and maintaining on Who is doing What with underutilized species and that deals with information about Projects, Experts and Institutions at a global level. Please follow the link “Who is doing What” (http://www.underutilized-species.org/institutional_mapping/about_im.asp) to learn about the db, access search functions and find forms for the delivery of information so to contribute and belong to it. I attach the forms for convenience together with a selection of projects in Cuba.
FEATURES
We would like to invite you to contribute to our section “Features”. This part of our web site tells one or more stories about a project, a plant or an expert once a month. We are posting write ups that do not exceed 700 – 800 words, some catchy information (Scientific, Historical, Anthropological, … whatever you think could be interesting) and possibly references, pictures and links – this is how I see it but am open to any other kind of contribution that will raise awareness and the profile of underutilized species. Have a look at this section on our home page to get a better understanding.
GFU delivers a monthly update to an e-mailing list made of approximately 2000 stakeholders about the latest news, let us know if you would like to be added to the distribution list or subscribe to our newsletter from the home page of our web site.
Please let us know about any papers, publications, initiatives you may consider relevant and I will place them online and make them available to all of our stakeholders.
For any clarification may be needed please do not hesitate in letting us know and I look forward in hearing from you.
All the best,
Paul
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Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
Via dei Tre Denari 472/a
00057 MACCARESE (Fiumicino)
Rome, Italy
e-mail: underutilized-species@cgiar.org
tel: +39 06 6118-302
fax: +39 06 61979661
http://www.underutilized-species.org
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Great info – just included it in the website. Please give a look and if you would like to join we can invite you as a member.
Hi and thanks for inviting me to join the association, in fact we here at Damaturu, Yobe State capital, Nigeria, West Africa. We do have this kind of leaves which is known as medicinal plant, which is use in treatment of mulnutrition, eye treatment, purification of water, many more, but to your surprise her the leaves is being wasted and is only use in diet for nurishment.
But to say the fact this community need to utilize very well more especially the pharmaceutical companies and other food processing companies to partronize the community.
Thanks
Mohammed Abdullahi John