NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS
FROM VELD PRODUCTS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT - PROTECTING AFRICA'S
FORESTS
Specialists in Non-Timber
Forest Products
Veld
products include foods, medicines, craft materials, tannins,
gums, resins, dyes, essential oils, florist materials, ornamental plants,
insects, horns, hides, skins and many other renewable natural
resources
Veld Products Research
& Development (VPR&D), is a Botswana-based Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO), established in 1981 to research and develop a wide range
of veld products and to investigate suitable management systems for natural
resources in order to ensure sustainable utilisation.
VPR&D's main research sites and nursery facilities are located in Gabane,
a village 18 kms west of Gaborone. A Board of Directors comprised of individuals
who are farmers in the Gabane community as well as senior people in Government
and in other NGOs governs VPR&D.
In addition to its nursery-based research, VPR&D undertakes field activities
throughout Botswana and the Southern Africa region.
These activities
include community-based project activities as well work on indigenous fruit
tree planting trials and agroforestry trial plots located throughout
Botswana.