Author: Cyril Lombard

Cyril has more than 30 years’ experience in the biotrade, natural products and small and medium size business development sectors. Cyril was a member of the project formulation team that led to the establishment of the Southern African Natural Products Trade Association – PhytoTrade Africa and served as CEO. More recently Cyril has been involved in fundraising for the development of the biotrade sector, and provides advisory services to the GIZ ABioSA project and the BioInnovation Africa project.

Commercializing Indigenous Plants in a Climate Impacted World

My passion is the sustainable commercialisation of Southern African indigenous plant resources to generate positive social, economic and environmental benefits. When the Southern African Natural Products Trade Association (SANProTA) was formed in 2000 there were no organisations supporting and representing the sector for producers of baobab fruit or marula oil. PhytoTrade Africa, as the association […]