Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 4:30 PM-5 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz
The site of the afternoon session of the Future Innovators Summit is the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank, where the discussion will focus on economic change. Zoubida Charrouf, a chemist on the faculty of Mohammed V University in Morocco, will report on an initiative to help women cultivate medicinal plants and to produce argan oil as a way to improve their own lives and nurture biodiversity in their region.
Zoubida Charrouf (MA)
Zoubida Charrouf is Professor at the Faculty of Science at the University Mohammed V in Rabat and President of the Ibn Al Baytar Association in Morocco. Her field of research is the Phytochemistry of Moroccan medicinal plants and the valorization of their metabolites in cosmetics and nutraceuticals. In addition to fundamental and applied research, disseminates her research and creates income for the empowerment of the women in rural areas and for the conservation of the biodiversity. She has founded the first women’s cooperatives for the production and marketing of argan oil in Morocco and has contributed to the organization of argan oil chain value and its recognition as cosmetic ingredient as well as culinary and functionnel food in the word. Zoubida Charrouf is the author of more than 100 publications on argan and its derivatives and more than 300 papers conferences and presentations.
Zoubida Charrouf is Professor at the Faculty of Science at the University Mohammed V in Rabat and President of the Ibn Al Baytar Association in Morocco. Her field of research is the Phytochemistry of Moroccan medicinal plants and the valorization of their metabolites in cosmetics and nutraceuticals. In addition to fundamental and applied research, disseminates her research and creates income for the empowerment of the women in rural areas and for the conservation of the biodiversity. She has founded the first women’s cooperatives for the production and marketing of argan oil in Morocco and has contributed to the organization of argan oil chain value and its recognition as cosmetic ingredient as well as culinary and functionnel food in the word. Zoubida Charrouf is the author of more than 100 publications on argan and its derivatives and more than 300 papers conferences and presentations.
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