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Tabernanthe iboga

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Tabernanthe iboga belongs to the family Apocynaceae and is a shrub up to 4 m tall with small fragrant flowers and yellowish to red berries. It is dist [ ... ]


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1 PROTA resources come in handy for students and teachers at Baraka Agricultural College
2 Improving livelihoods with indigenous vegetables
3 Vegetable farming empowers women in Burkina Faso
4 Food security and income enhanced for farmers of Mukono District, Uganda
5 Conservation of medicinal plants for better livelihoods: A case study of farmers and practitioners in the Asankragua District of Ghana
6 Need to diversify crop research in Ghana universities
7 Promoting medicinal plants for better livelihoods: The case of PROMETRA Uganda
8 Handy resource books for Agricultural Colleges
9 From traditional to modern tomato faming: increasing the gains
10 Seeds for Life: Reaping today and preparing for tomorrow
11 Men in vegetable growing for improved nutrition, income generation and poverty alleviation in Kamuli District Uganda
12 Coloring livelihoods with natural dyes
13 Sowing seeds of hope for farmers in arid Kinango
14 Introducing sweeter and bigger moneymaking melons in Madagascar
15 Voices from Central African Republic
16 A valuable resource for researchers on African traditional medicine
17 Meeting the needs of researchers: responses from Benin
18 Indigenous plants - a backbone for health and nutrition
19 Vegetables farming: Helping women of Touosin improve their socio economic status
20 Filling the information gap on traditional medicinal with PROTA handbook on medicinal plants
21 PROTA information for teaching, learning and research in Nigeria
22 The complementary role of herbal medicine practitioners in Nigeria
23 Cotton growers in Togo turn to maize for more benefits
24 A survey of PROTA information users from Brazzaville, Congo
25 Development organizations in Benin explore PROTA information
26 PROTA publications distributed by CTA
27 Households in Burundi maximize on nutritional benefits of Soya beans
 

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