Ghana

Products:
1. Paprika
2. Birds' eye chili
3. Manketi
4. Moringa
5. Lemongrass
6. Mushrooms
7. Specialty vegetables

Projects:
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development - Natural Proudts (PFID-NP)

2. IITA-Irrigation Support Project

3. Initiative to End Hunger in Africa (IEHA)

Partners:
1. Sun International Hotel
2. University of Zambia (UNZA)
3. Total Land Care (TLC)
4. Nanga Irrigation
5. Msekera Research Station
6. Chitedze Research Station

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. USAID-Southern Africa

South Africa

Products:
1. Rooibos Tea
2. Honeybush Tea
3. Specialty Vegetables and Herbs
4. Small Fruits
5. Mushrooms

Projects:
1. IITA Natural Products Project
2. IITA Horticulture Network
3. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
4. Limpopo Agribusiness Project
5. Tshwaraganang Hydroponics
6. Doringbaai Greenhouse Project
7. Moroletsoa Mentorship and Technology Transfer Project
8. Haarlem Honeybush Tea Project
9. Oudtshoorn Hydroponics Project
1.. Eden Community Project
11. ALO/IITA Germplasm Projects

Partners:
1. University of Stellenbosch
2. IITA
3. Total Land Care

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. USAID-Southern Africa
3. National Development Authority
4. Department of Economic Development and Tourism
5. Department of Agriculture and Land Reform
6. Limpopo Agribusiness Development Authority

Senegal

Products:
1. Hibiscus (Bissap)
2. Kinkeliba (Healing Tree)

Porjects:
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
2. ASNAPP-Association Education Sante (AES) Hibiscus Project

Partners:
1. Association Education Sante (AES)

Promoters:
1. Government of Senegal
2. USAID

Rwanda

Products:
1. Geranium
2. Lemongrass
3. Eucalyptus
4. Rosemary
5. Manketti

Projects:
1. Ikirezi Natural Products
2. Ikirezi Plantlets Project
3. Essential Oils Project

Partners:
1. World Relief

Promoters:
1. African Development Foundation
2. Ministere de l'Agriculture et de l'Elevage (MINAGRI)
3. USAID/Global Development Alliance (GDA)

Ghana

Products:
1. Griffonia
2. Voacanga
3. Grains of Paradise (GOP)
4. Xylopia
5. Mondia
6. Lippia

Projects:
1. Partnership for Food Industry Development (PFID-NP)
2. Botanical Product Standards Development
3. Capacity Building Program for Botanical Products Association
4. Enterprise Information System and Business Development Project
5. Alternative Livelihood for Forest-Fringe Communities
6. National Educational Campaign for Sustainable Practices in the Botanical Industry
7. Natural Products for Rural Livelihood Improvement

Partners:
1.Trade and Investment Program for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE)
2. Ghana Standards Board
3. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
4. University of Ghana
5. Rural Development and Youth Association (RUDEYA)

Promoters:
1. USAID
2. Trade and Investment Program for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE)
3. Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF)
4. Forestry Commission
5. Support Program for Enterprise Empowerment and Development (SPEED)
6. InterChurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO-Netherlands)

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Study finds commercial levels of 5-HTP in Liberia Griffonia

Written by Hanson Arthur
Friday, 30 July 2010 12:17
Researchers from Rutgers University and their counterparts from ASNAPP offices in Ghana have identified Griffonia simplicifolia seeds with commercial levels of 5-HTP from Liberia. The first of its kind from Liberia, the research sought to assess the overall quality of seeds collected and processed in the Nimba and Lolay counties.
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Could Lippia multiflora herbal tea become the West African ‘Rooibos’?

Written by Hanson Arthur

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:32

As research into Lippia multiflora intensifies, we pause to pose one question: Is Lippia multiflora emerging as the West African equivalent of the famous rooibos tea of South Africa? Recent research into this herbal tea is calling for increased attention to unravel its potential application as a commercial herbal tea product on regional and international markets.

Written by Hanson Arthur

Friday, 30 April 2010 12:43

Aframomum melegutta also called Grains of Paradise (GOP) is gradually remerging and sneaking itself back onto dinner tables and the ingredient shelves of restaurants and food factories. Steeped in a rich and partly embellished historical background, Aframomum melegutta is a spice native to tropical West Africa. Part of the West African coast especially from Buchanan to Harper in Liberia was named the ‘Grains Coast’ due to the high availability GOP in this area.

When perestroika engulfs a nation

Written by Hanson Arthur

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 08:31

When Mikhail Gorbachev introduced his concept of perestroika in the Soviet Union in June of 1987, he sought to initiate a policy of reconstruction that would enhance the overall political and socio-economic lives of the soviet people, and perhaps serve as a pattern for a new thinking around the world.

Written by Hanson Arthur

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 08:19

ASNAPP (Ghana) and the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) have jointly developed international trade standards for Voacanga africana and Griffonia simplicifolia, the two leading medicinal plants of export value in Ghana.

Written by Hanson Arthur
Natural crops Cocoa is the leading traditional crop of many West African countries, including Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. The commodity is one of the world’s highest valued agricultural products and has traditionally been the anchor of socio-economic activities in West Africa for several decades. Until recently, when Cote d’Ivoire assumed the title, Ghana was the world’s leading producer nation of cocoa – the crop which holds the secret to chocolate production.
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Strategies to implement botanical standards in Ghana

Written by Hanson Arthur
Stakeholders ASNAPP in collaboration with the Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF), Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC), Ghana Standards Board (GSB) and the Trade and Investment Programme for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE) have jointly organized a stakeholders' workshop to map out strategies for the implementation of trade standards for the two leading medicinal plants of Ghana (Griffonia and Voacanga).
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Liberia Beckons ASNAPP

Written by Hanson Arthur

Visit Team

A group of policy makers from Liberia have paid a fact-finding and colloborative visit to the offices of ASNAPP Ghana. The fourth in a series of such visits, the trip offered the team an opportunity to press home their message to have an ASNAPP Program implemented in their country within the shortest time possible.

In order to maintain sales, Kombo processing facilities have been set up in Begoro and Ampenkro.

In January 2007, ASNAPP in collaboration with TIPCEE and SPEED, held an educational campaign to promote Good Collection and post-harvest practices of Griffonia simplicifolia.

Barbex outgrower scheme at Juaso

Barbex Technology Limited has provided market opportunities for farmers from communities around Juaso.

Cottage level tea-processing facility

ASNAPP has acquired tea milling and sieving equipment for farmers at Trayonya, a small community with natural stands of Lippia tea.

Natural plant information hub

ASNAPP secured a grant from the Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF) to set up a computer-based reference library at their Ghanian office.

Voacanga africana is proving to be a viable source of income for low income Ghanian communities.

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