The vision is to enable the use of medicinal plants growing in Africa for the benefit of its people and animals. The programme investigates problems in the wide area of infections, especially microbial and parasitic infection infections in the process of training postgraduate students. The programme applies academically sound methods and tries to understand the background to the problems, rather than only developing quick fix to the problems. Therefore we are not satisfied only in isolating and testing bioactive compounds, but are also interested in following up on aspects such as toxicology, pharmacology, testing activity in animals, mechanism of activity, industrial application and especially enabling rural use. To ensure that
Products developed may be registered for use in animals and humans, we keep regulatory requirement in mind.
Standards at InterCEDD are maintained by using the World health Organization's guidelines and specifications for the preparation of phytomedicine and drug development all work is supported by a highly sophisticated analytical laboratory noted for its high quality and pioneering work.

Moringa Whole Seed - contains all the richness of the Moringa plant. It is a good anti-oxidant and detoxifier.

Our Partners

1) Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP)
Mission:
Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, knowledge based organization dedicated to sustainable utilisation and conservation of biological resources while creating innovative mechanisms for sustainable development that encompass the interface between health and the environment. Our goal is to provide communities with all the tools and information they need to preserve their self-sufficiency in an increasingly industrialized world, while retaining as much of their cultural framework as possible. BDCP utilizes its independent and non-governmental status to bring innovative management and technical support to grass-roots sustainable development projects. It also serves as an intermediary institution forging equitable partnerships between tropical countries and often-inaccessible developmental agencies.

Our Approach:
BDCP Projects aims to improve rural livelihoods by enhancing the sustainability of their supporting ecosystem. We adopt a systems perspective, drawing on diverse expertise to tackle the many dimensions of biological resources management and integration across disciplines, geographical and time scales, and the research-development-policy continuum.

Sustainability, capacity building and self-reliance are the underlying tenets in all BDCP projects. The programme adopts a bottom-up approach in its efforts to enable rural dwellers to derive maximum benefits from their environmental resources and their labor. Science and technology is viewed as a useful tool to be adapted to the cultural framework of productive activities, not as modern alternatives to the contributions of members of the community.

Our research challenges are to generate integrated biological resource management knowledge (including the tools to use it) and to promote its free exchange among researchers, policymakers, and users of these resources.

Innovations are introduced to empower stakeholders at all levels to make informed resource-management choices by improving their knowledge and their ability to articulate objectives and negotiate demands. Research and operational methods are developed involving stakeholders in the process, as much as we do the delivered research products. Within each project region, we have established strategic partnerships with local level, national and international institutions that fill complementary roles along the research-development continuum.

Organisation and Capabilities:
Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP) was founded in 1991. BDCP has several offices and project sites in Nigeria. Major facilities include administrative offices in Abuja, as well as a flagship laboratory in Nsukka. Affiliate, but independent country programmes also exist in Cameroon, Guinea, and Kenya. In addition, BDCP has an established international liaison office in the USA.

Through its International Centre for Ethnomedicine and Drug Development (InterCEDD), BDCP has considerably enhanced capacities in ethnobiology and field taxonomy. Its linkages, broad sectoral and multi disciplinary approach has endowed it with considerable experience in biodiversity research, public participation, training, management and conservation. Our programme areas are biodiversity conservation and inventory, environmental valuation and sustainable development, ethnobotany and field taxonomy, as well as capacity building and training. In addition, BDCP has a sister-company in the USA known as Axxon Biopharm where Natural Products are developed.