• Equator Initiative: A Worldwide Movement to Alleviate Poverty and Sustain Biodiversity Community-based initiatives to protect marine resources in Fiji, conserve medicinal plants in India, and support ecotourism in Kenya - what do these programs have in common? They all fulfill the objectives of the Equator Initiative: alleviating poverty while sustaining biodiversity.
  http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num= 80
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  Biodiversity
  Community-based initiatives to protect marine resources in Fiji, conserve medicinal plants in India, and support ecotourism in Kenya - what do these programs have in common? They all fulfill the objectives of the Equator Initiative: alleviating poverty while sustaining biodiversity.
  http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num= 80
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  Ancient Indian remedy 'lowers cholesterol'
  http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/03/india.ayurveda/index.html
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  Preserving Rwanda's Medicinal Plants: a profile of Léopold Ntezurubanza
  http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num= 63
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  Spice profits uplift community in Nepal
  http://www.fao.org/NEWS/2001/010506-e.htm
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  Online Publications
  Journal of Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants
  http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/product.asp?sku==J044
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  Marketing of indigenous medicinal plants in South Africa
  http://www.fao.org/docrep/W9195E/w9195e00.htm#Contents
  
  Medicinal plants: Pluck, not plunder
  Spore Nr. 99, June 2002
  http://www.agricta.org/Spore/spore99/spore99_feature.html
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  Institutions
  UNDP India
  Environment Programme Support Sub-Programme for Medicinal Plants Conservation and Sustainable Utilization
  http://www.undp.org.in/Programme/Environment/mplants/toc.htm
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  TRAMIL
  Program of Applied Research to Popular Medicine in the Caribbean
  http://www.funredes.org/endacaribe/traducciones/tramil.html
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  enda tiers monde
  Programme Plantes médicinales & Médicine traditionelle
  http://www.enda.sn/plantesmed/
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  CIEER
  Centre for international ethnomedicinal education and research
  http://www.cieer.org/
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  Internet Discussion Forums
  Green medicine
  Medicinal Plant Working Group Announcements and Discussion via E-mail
  http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/mpwglist.htm
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  MEDPLANTS
  Global Network on Medicinal Plants
  http://www.bellanet.org/medplants/index.cfm?fuseaction==contact
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  Recommended Literature
  South American medicinal plants : botany, remedial properties and general use
  Roth, Ingrid, Lindorf, Helga
  New York : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002
  ISBN: 3-540-41929-2
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  The Role of Medicinal Plants Industry in Fostering Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development
  IDRC: New Delhi: Research Programs
  The growing demand of consumers worldwide for herbal and natural products to meet both their healthcare needs and dietary supplements has opened up new opportunities for the medicinal plants-based industries. However, this market-propelled demand has created tremendous pressure on the natural resources which contribute more than 90% of the current demand for the raw materials of medicinal plants. The local communities mostly belonging to tribals and rural poor are not benefitted from the increased commercial activities as only a fraction of the total markets return reaches them.
  
  The publication collates information describing concepts, approaches and practical experiences of the researchers, practitioners and commercialization experts in the field of medicinal plants use in the South Asian region. The research findings and case studies reported provide models and mechanisms not only on how to use the threatened medicinal plants resources wisely but also how to enhance local benefits on a sustainable manner. The views expressed and recommendations suggested by the representatives of the Ayurvedic drug industry of India provide the perspectives from the industry and local communities is the thrust of this publication which has been reflected in the resolution adopted by the Workshops.
  http://www.idrc.ca/saro/research/mappa/role%20of%20medicinal%20plants.html
  http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/andar.htm
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  Sustainable Development, Gender and Local Power:
  ANDAR's experience with medicinal plants
  
  In October 1989, the ANDAR Association of Costa Rica was funded as a result of concern and interest from a group of professionals working for OEF International, on the Program Education for Participation (PEP). The same way it was established in Costa Rica, ANDAR was created in Guatemala, and Honduras with a separate legal ID in each country and financial independence but coordinating objectives and activities with PEP
  
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  IDRC website on Sustainable Use of Biodiversity:
  This site provides information on medicinal plants and natural products research supported by the program initiative Sustainable Use of Biodiversity at Canada's International Development Research Centre.
  
  IDRC supports research on medicinal plants and natural products that reflects the corporate strategy Empowerment through Knowledge by building scientific and technological capacity, responding to local needs, promoting gender-equity, and building communication and information networks within and between regions.
  
  IDRC currently supports research projects, networks, and other activities on medicinal plants and natural products in Asia, Africa, and Central America. A multidisciplinary approach integrates key issues in health, conservation, indigenous knowledge, and local economic development. These research activities link several IDRC programme initiatives, including:
  http://www.idrc.ca/biodiversity/projects/proj_focus_e.cfm?Focus==livelihoods
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  India: Biological Organizations and Resources - NBII
  http://www.nbii.gov/geographic/international/IN.html
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  Medicinal plants and conservation:issues and approaches
  http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/medplantsandcons.pdf
  
  Impact of Cultivation and Gathering of Medicinal Plants on Biodiversity: Global Trends and Issues
  By
  Uwe Schippmann, Danna J. Leaman and A. B. Cunningham
  Published in
  FAO. 2002. Biodiversity and the Ecosystem Approach in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Satellite event on the occasion of the Ninth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome, 12-13 October 2002. Inter-Departmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture. Rome
  http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/AA010E/AA010e00.htm#TopOfPage
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  Medicinal Plant Biodiversity for Conservation and Sustainable Economic Use
  (World Bank Research Program)
  
  This study aimed to contribute to the knowledge on the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants. The first part produced a concept paper exploring the role of medicinal plants as biological resources. The second part looked at how China and India are confronting the threats to their medicinal plants. It examined the status of policies and regulations governing the conservation of medicinal plants; the extent of cultivation; research needs for sustainable cultivation and quality control; the cultural value of the informal medicinal market; available data on production, sales, and trade in the formal market; and analytical approaches in assessing the current and potential value of medicinal plants. The study found that women play a pivotal role in the production and use of traditional medicines in most developing regions.
  
  Responsibility: Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, Agriculture and Forestry Systems Division-Jitendra P. Srivastava (E-mail address: jsrivastava@worldbank.org). With John Lambert, Carleton University;and Noel Vietmeyer, National Research Council.
  http://www.worldbank.org/gender/resources/research/res3.htm
  
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  Ethiopia: Traditional Medicine andthe Bridge to Better Health
  Ethiopia: Traditional Medicine andthe Bridge to Better Health http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/iknt35.pdf
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  THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS IN UTILISATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE IN WESTERN UGANDA
  PAPER PRESENTED AT THE WORLD'S WOMEN CONGRESS 2002 ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT, MAKERERE UNIVERSITY FROM
  21ST-26TH JULY, 2002
  
  MAUD KAMATENESI MUGISHA (Mrs);
  Department of Botany, Makerere University,
  P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda;
  Tel: 256-77-438905 or 256- 41- 340737/ 540765; Fax: 256 41 530134;
  E-mail: mkmugisha@hotmail.com or mkmugisha@yahoo.com
  http://www.makerere.ac.ug/womenstudies/full%20papers/MAUD.htm
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  CONSERVING NATURE TO COUNTER POVERTY
  What do the rainforests of Amazonia, the hot springs of Iceland, the African wilderness, the great belt of reefs around Australia or the summits of the Himalayas have in common? Their rich biodiversity, which mankind has exploited since time immemorial: medicinal plants, natural colorings or micro-organisms used for medicinal purposes, perfumes, make-up, dyes for clothing, food or home decoration
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  http://www-partners.unctad.ch/english/R2/pfd6.htm
  
  Medicinal Plants and Local Communities (MPLC) in Africa: Promotion of local communities' strategies for the conservation of medicinal-plant genetic resources in Africa.
  http://www.unesco.org/most/bpik1.htm
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  Finding the Link: Medicinal Plants, Modern Drugs and Conservation of Tropical Resources
  http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses01/PapersCostaRicaArticles/FinalPaper-FindingtheLink.html
  http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/FieldCourses00/PapersMarineEcologyArticles/TropicalMedicinalPlants-C.html
  
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  IPGRI's global goal is to encourage, support and undertake activities to improve the management of genetic resources so as to eradicate poverty, increase food security and protect the environment.
  http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/regions/ssa/useandrestoration/restoration.htm

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