ETHNOBOTANY: INTEGRATING PEOPLE, NATURE, AND BUSINESS WHILE MAINTAINING BOTANICAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRITY
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| Title | ETHNOBOTANY: INTEGRATING PEOPLE, NATURE, AND BUSINESS WHILE MAINTAINING BOTANICAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRITY |
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| Abstract | Bioprospecting can be called the black sheep of ethnobotany, but done well it can reduce poverty, train botanical practitioners in communities and of course offer tools to medical practitioners in any ailing nation. Lately there was a re-surgence in this discipline of botany to identify new products based on traditional knowledge. Finding the right plant that can be used as a natural product is not an easy lab task, but what about the other issues? How does bioprospecting support sustainability? This short presentation discusses one system that seems to be working even though the long-term results are still not evident. |
| Publisher | African Ethnomedicines Network |
| Date | 2009-06-07 |
| Source | African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative medicines (AJTCAM) ABSTRACTS OF THE WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS, CAPE TOWN NOVEMBER 2008 |
| Rights | Articles can be used for educational and non-comercial purposes. The copyrights of articles are retained by the authors with publication rights granted to AJTCAM. |