QUALITREE – research based local tree oil production

Research project Oil products from native trees in West Africa are essential for human diet, medicine and cosmetics, but their potentials are far from fully exploited. QUALITREE aims to reduce poverty by increasing food security and income in Burkina Faso and Mali th ... Project Completion Report: Women in rural Africa traditionally extract oil from the seeds of numerous native trees. QualiTree combined investigations of rural people’s knowledge and analyses of physiochemical properties of oils to improve and prom ...
Period: 2011-01-1 to 2017-06-30 Countries: Burkina Faso Mali Lead institution: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Partner institutions: Centre Régionale de la Recherche Agronomique (CRRA), Mali International Food Science Centre A/S (IFSC), Denmark Access the Energy (ATE), Denmark University of Ouagadougou (OU), Burkina Faso Project code: 10-002AU Total grant: 9,430,267 DKK
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