New York City Metro Coalition
New York City Metro Coalition (many organizations, see profile)
See Below For:Who We Are:Purpose, Mission and Goals:Initiatives:Leadership:About our Icon:Who We Are: We are a Coalition of metropolitan New York region networks and organizations whose missions and goals are similar to those of WiserEarth.org and the vision of Paul Hawken and his associates. ...learn more
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Created: Apr 01, 2008
Updated: Aug 27, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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PROTA is an international, not-for-profit foundation. It intends to synthesize the dispersed information on the approximately 7,000 useful plants of Tropical Africa and to provide wide access to the information through Webdatabases, Books, CD-Roms and Special Products.
The objectives are to bring the published information, now accessible to the resourceful happy few, into the public domain. This will contribute to greater awareness and sustained use of the world heritage of African useful plants, with due respect for traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights.
The direct target groups for the PROTA information are the decision-makers in government, private sector, research, education and rural development, whose decisions affect millions of people depending for their livelihood on the plant resources.
The end-users are the people in Tropical Africa depending directly on the plant resources, mainly farmers and forest communities, but also workers in cottage industries, among them many women. PROTA will bring development opportunities based on plant resources actively and immediately to the attention of the direct target groups for realizing impact on the end-users.
