Status report on global Neem usage - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

4. NEEM IN DEVELOPMENT-COOPERATION PROJECTS
entrepreneurs and resulted in a countrywide awareness for neem and smaller neem
processing activities. Proceedings of the first conference are available by GTZ, the second
by Goethe Institute, Accra (see below: Literature).
First neem products were manufactured in Ghana in 1999 by commercial companies, several
other companies were interested in the production.
Literature:
BRIMAH, A. K. (ed) (2000): Efficacy and Commercialization of Neem Products in Ghana,
Proceedings of an Opem Forum Organized by Goethe Institut from 19 to 21. October,
1999. Woeli Publ. Services, 77 pp; ISBN 9964-978-71-5s.
FOERSTER, P. (ed) (1998): The Potential of the Neem Tree in Ghana, 127pp. GTZ Publication.
FOERSTER, P. (1999): Feasibility Study on the implementation of a Neem processing Plant
in Ghana. 25 pp, GTZ
MANU, J.; E. ANTWI, FJ CHILDS, JR CHAMBERLAIN, HARRIS, PJC: Improvement of
neem an its potential benefits to poor farmers in developing countries. Report on the
current and potential use of neem in Ghana. R 7348. HDRA; CNRD, DFID, 47 pp.
- Dito: Proceedings of the e-mail workshop by HDRA.
TANZUBIL, P.B. (1986): The Use of neem products in controlling the cowpea weevil,
Callosobruchus maculatus, In: Schmutterer, H. & Ascher, K. (1996) Natural Pesticides
from the neem tree and other tropical plants, GTZ Publ. 206, 517-524 p.
GUATEMALA
"Fomento y desarrollo del cultivo del Nim"
(Promotion and development of neem)
Time Frame: since July 1995 - 1998
Short description: The NGO ALTERTEC as project-executing agency is promoting various
methods of appropriate agriculture in two areas in the south of the country and, within this
context, is propagating the neem tree and its many and varied uses.
Activities with neem: Planting of the neem tree as a means of protecting against erosion, for
afforestation purposes, as wind protection and as a shade tree and for obtaining seeds;
dissemination of know-how pertaining to neem’s usage as a pesticide.
ALTERTEC was receiving both financial and technical support from the GTZ’s "Pesticide
Service Project" until 1998.
In addition the German NGO “Friedrich Naumann Stiftung” is assisting NGOs in planting
neem trees and creating awareness on the potential of neem trees in Guatemala.
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