About us | Natural Incense from Ethiopia

Since 2012, the Boswellia Project is intended to strengthen the ecological nature of the incense tree, the Boswellia, and its positive economical outcomes for the Christian communities in the arid region of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.

The most recent scientific research in the area (Groenendijk et al, « Limitations to sustainable frankincense production (...) », Journal of Applied Ecology, 2011) show that the maintenance of the forest resources is alarmingly threatened by an intensive resin collection, led by foreign companies.

The Boswellia Project is a unique initiative that combines respect for our ecology and quality products for liturgy. No other existing companies or monasteries in the United Kingdom propose such natural incenses produced from sustainable sources.

Just as there was the Spice trade route, there was the Incense route, flourishing from South Arabia to the Mediterranean, between roughly the 7th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.

Since then, the incense, a very natural aromatic resin produced by the Boswellia tree, has been used in cathedrals, churches and monasteries for centuries throughout the world.

It was crucial to propose a new way of collecting and distributing the incense for churches. To do so, with an innovative model of sustainable production and marketing to churches around the world, the Boswellia Project provides:

– a higher revenue for the family farmers,

– a sustainable preservation of forest resources,

– an optimum price/quality ratio for churches.

The whole economic organization of the Boswellia Project was developed in an inclusive manner in the Tigray region in Ethiopia – except the distributing entity in Europe, based in France, legally dedicated to the Boswellia Project.

The Boswellia tree preservation phase of the project is provided by the collaboration of researchers in Ethnobotany and Pharmacology from universities in Ethiopia and France.

The information shared here fully conceptualizes the core principles of the economic and environmental cooperation established by the Boswellia Project with the Christian families involved in Tigray.

You can contact our team by email at contact@projetboswellia.com and on WhatsApp at +33 6 69 95 24 01.