From PROTA’s (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) web site a write up on the Useful Plants Project (UPP).

The project was initiated by the National Museums of Kenya in 2007 to document information on local plant uses and to undertake seed storage of these plant species in a seed bank. The goal is to improve the welfare of poor communities and safeguard from extinction useful Kenyan plant species. On the other hand, a sister project known as the Seeds for Life Project is a Kenya plant conservation project targeting conservation of Kenya’s dry land plant taxa on-farm, in-situ and ex-situ … read on