INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON MDICINAL
PLANTS, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
AND
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE
TRADE AND
CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS,
by Ernest Rukangira
RABAT,
MOROCCO: 2-4 MAY 2002
Under the auspices of the Ministry of
Education and Research, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and
the University of Rabat
CONVENORS AND ORGANISERS:
·
Centre for Development and the Environment
(SUM), University of Oslo
(UiO), Norway;
·
Conserve Africa International, London, UK;
·
Denzil Phillips International, London, UK
·
The
Government of Morocco
·
The
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco;
·
The
Moroccan Network of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Rabat, Morocco;
·
The
University of Rabat, Morocco
In collaboration with partners in
Belgium, France, Madagascar, The Netherlands,
Senegal, UK and USA
Scientific Committee:
Pr. N. Abatzoglou (Cherbrooke, Canada) ; Pr. U. Baltayev
(Uzbekistan)
Pr. H.
Becker (Germany); Dr. G. Bodeker (Oxford, UK); Dr. I. Butare ( IDRC, Dakar);
Pr. A. Chemli (Tunisie); Pr. G. Collin ( Montréal, Canada); Pr. I. Conzalez
(Cadiz,Spain) , Pr. D. Cortez (Valence, Espagne); Dr. F. Gasengayire (IDRCI,
Nairobi); Pr. L. Kintea ( Moldavia) ; Dr. J. Lambert ( The WB,
Washington, DC.USA; Pr. J. Leclerc (Bruxels, Belgique); Pr. N. Manniouini (
Italie); Pr. N. Morelli (Pise, Italie);
Pr. A. T. Oster (Metz, France); Pr. J. Pellecuer (Montpellier, France);
Dr. T. A. Pergola, ( USA, Tanzania);
Pr. L. Rashan, (Amman , Joyrdani);
Dr. S. Roussos (IRD, France); Pr.
Pan Shengeh (China); Dr. H. Svarstad (
SUM, Norway); Pr. Pan Shengeh (China);
Prof. Dr. L. Jan Slikkerveer
, The Netherlands); Pr. A. R. Soulimani (Metz, France);
Dr. F.
Sy ( ENDA, Senegal); Pr. C. Younos
(Metz, France); Pr. H.
Verpoorte (Netherlands)
INTRODUCTION:
It is our pleasure to announce that the International Colloquium on Medicinal Plants/Health/Environment and the International Workshop on Sustainable Trade and Conservation of Medicinal Plants Resources will be held in Morocco on 2-4 May, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and the University of Rabat. The meetings are convened and organised by the Moroccan Network of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, The University of Rabat/The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy; the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM)/University of Oslo (UiO), Norway; Conserve Africa International, London, UK and Denzil Phillips International, London, UK . The Moroccan government and other International Organisations support the Symposium.
The Symposium will focus on issues relating to medicinal plants for traditional human and veterinary medicine, aromatic and cosmetic plants, phytomedicines and other plants-derived natural products. It is expected that the meeting will attended by government and donor representatives, scientists, researchers, policy-makers, conservationists, NGOs, private companies, health professionals, herbalists and traditional practitioners, etc.
Rabat is the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco, cradle of civilisations, whose history pre-dates antiquity. Combining both traditional and modernity, the city offers its visitors the opportunity to discover different historical monuments in the tiny winding alleys of its medina, where stolling is particularly enchanting in this mild flowery spring season.
Both meetings will take place in Rabat, Morocco, 2-4 May 2002.
For more information about Morocco and its tourism attractions, please visit:
http://www.tourisme-marocain.com/ and
http://www.tourism-in-morocco.com/welcome.htm
I. The Objectives of the International Colloquium on Medicinal Plants/ Health/ Environment and Development are:
I.1.Assess the status of R&D in the area of medicinal plants and phytomedicines and provide a forum for exchange information on research activities, results and initiatives;
I.2.Stimulate action & support of R&D, growth and sustainable development of medicinal plant use, conservation and production;
I.3.Provide the state of the arts on recent contributions at the scientific and technological levels in the sector of the Medicinal Plants and Aromatic Plants;
I.4.Address the sector with value- added potentialities by highlighting the socio-economic and medical importance of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at regional and international levels;
I.5.Evaluate and develop the contribution of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the systems of public health;
Topics:
Among the issues that will be addressed by the Colloquium sessions are:
- Ethno-botany, Traditional Medicine, Pharmacopoeia;
- Physiotherapy, Phytodrugs and Phytofoods, Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy;
- Technology, Quality and Legal aspects;
-Extraction of raw material, Phytochemistry, Analytical methods, Quality and Standardisation;
-Pharmacology, Biology, Research methodology in Medicinal Plants, Toxicology of Natural Products, Toxicological evaluation of plants used in food as flavourings and Biotechnology.
- Ethnobotanical investigations, production of drugs from medicinal plants, chemical,
biological and pharmacological studies, ethnomedicine and drug discovery);
- Validation, standardization and value addition in phytomedicines;
- Biodiversity, Conservation of Medicinal and, Aromatic plants Resources;
The Colloquium will be characterised by scientific presentations and lectures highlighting research advances in the areas of Medicinal/ Aromatic Plants and phytomedicines.
II. International workshop on Sustainable Trade and Conservation of Medicinal Plants resources:
The broad objectives of the International Workshop on Sustainable Trade and Conservation of Medicinal Plants are:
II.1.Identify key challenges, experiences and opportunities in promoting indigenous knowledge, bioprospecting and benefit sharing for sustainable conservation of medicinal plants;
II.2· Review current action and share experiences from different regions on sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants, Indigenous knowledge, IPR, benefit sharing, bioprospecting and access to Medicinal Plants Genetic Resources;
II.3. Share experiences and Information on sustainable
conservation, domestication, propagation and production of Aromatic and
Medicinal Plants;
II.4· Identify feasible approaches for sharing benefits with local communities and for enhancing the sustainable and conservation of medicinal plants.
Main Topics:
The International Workshop on Sustainable Trade and
Conservation of Medicinal Plants Resources will deal with the following 3 main
themes:
a) Action and proposals for sustainable use and conservation of
medicinal plants;
b) Trade and bioprospecting in medicinal plants;
c) Bioprospecting, indigenous knowledge and benefit sharing
This a participatory workshop that will be dominated by discussion and exchange on practical field experiences regarding sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants, Indigenous Knowledge, Benefit Sharing and Bioprospecting.
Contributions (views, ideas, papers, posters) from all
participants will be treated as equal.
All participants are resource persons for the workshop and all selected
paper presenters are key speakers.
If you
wish to attend the International Workshop, please send an e-mail to: The
Workshop Coordinator, Conserve Africa International, London at: info@conserveafrica.org;
Tel: +442084434852; Fax: +442089482673
Detailed information on the content and practical organisation of the Workshop can also be found at: http://www.conserveafrica.org
For general inquiries about the Colloquium, local organisation and administrative procedures of both meetings, please contact Professor Mohammed HMAMOUCHI, President of the Symposium
E-mail: hmamouchim@hotmail.com or hmamouchim@wanadoo.net.ma.
More information can also be found at: http://www.multimania.com/congres2002pma
Secretariat of the Symposium
RPMA. B.P. 6203.
RABAT-Instituts. Maroc.
Tel : 212 61 30 37 78
Fax : 212 37 60 25 91
E-mail: hmamouchim@hotmail.com
Participants may choose to attend only ONE meeting.
Please fill in the registration form and send your paper to the appropriate
Organiser of the meeting that you have selected.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE TRADE AND CONSERVATION OF
MEDICINAL PLANTS RESOURCES:
I. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: SCOPE, PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
I.1. INTRODUCTION
Over the years, the importance of specific plant species
for primary health care has received some recognition from official
authorities, research and policy institutions.
This acknowledgement has been extremely vital in efforts to conserve
medicinal bio-diversity. But the preservation of such plants has depended
mainly on how indigenous and local communities have treated ecosystems in
general.
In fact, traditional healers have not only directed much
of their attention to plants of direct medicinal relevance, but also to the
conservation of adjoining areas where non-medicinal species grow. The health and diversity of plants in
surrounding areas is crucial in providing cover for medicinal plants. As such, bio-diversity conservation has
largely been an integral part of healing activities. The collective wisdom on
bio-diversity conservation has been embodied in the cultures of indigenous
peoples and passed on from generation to generation.
While international efforts have concentrated on issues
of bio-conservation in developing countries, no formula has been devised to
compensate local communities for the genetic resources, which they helped to
conserve, and which have had significant pharmaceutical spin offs for
industrialised countries.
Most developing countries are
situated in the inter-tropical zone, with especially rich and diversified
flora, which constitutes an important reservoir of the World's bio-diversity.
It is thought that the tropical forests contain approximately half of the
world's species. As estimated by the World Health Organisation about 80% of the
population of developing countries rely on traditional medicine, mostly plant
drugs, for their primary health care. One important common element of
complementary or traditional medicine is that they encourage and elicit
self-healing. This workshop will broadly discuss conservation and management
issues of the resource base; draw attention to several challenges and problems
in the areas of trade, bioprospecting, Indigenous knowledge and benefit sharing
related to medicinal plants and formulate concrete proposals to address them.
Many medicinal plants from the South are
also valued in selected markets around the World. The growing demand for
natural cosmetics, and herbal and prescription medicine, has resulted in
significant imports of wild plants to developed countries. At the same time, very little information
exists on the local knowledge pertaining to bio-diversity conservation and
management and on the identity of many species in trade, the volumes traded and
the impact of harvest. For the most
part, the plants and animals used in traditional medicine are collected from
the wild, and in many cases, demand far exceeds supply. As the population
grows, demand for traditional medicines will increase, and pressure on natural
resources will become greater than ever.
The possible uses of
the medicinal plants in the South plants to treat various conditions have been
widely documented. However, knowledge
regarding the stage at which plants provide the best material, the locations
where they are available, how they may be harvested with minimal destruction,
etc., are not clearly found in the manuscripts.
If this knowledge dies with elderly practitioners, it may in fact be
lost forever. Among the questions that will be addressed by participants are as
follows: Are there strategies mechanisms
for conserving medicinal plants and incentives to encourage local
participation. Is there any strategy for restoring plants harvested in the
wild? Are there incentives and mechanisms for collectors and farmers to keep
the production of medicinal plants sustainable? What are the policies regarding
the export of medicinal plants? Are only raw materials exported?
Promoting increased trade in medicinal plants is all well and
good so long as this trade is sustainable. There is a growing awareness amongst
the conservation movement that uncontrolled wild harvesting of medicinal plants
is not only ecologically damaging but is often
“killing the goose that laid the golden egg”. Both the exporters and
importers have often been more concerned about short-term gains than the
long-term importance of conservation of the medicinal resource base. The CITES
Secretariat (The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) is
placing increasing emphasis on medicinal plants. It has listed products, which should not be
traded, and other products that are only traded with proper permits. The
regional Intergovernmental organisations can play an important role in
supporting efforts to ensure that our medicinal plant heritage will not be lost
for future generations as trade in medicinal herbs expands.
Bio-prospecting
has been practised for many years in different forms but in more recent times,
in particular with the development of the CBD, the issue of sharing of benefits
arising from bio-prospecting, has attained significance. The CBD, in the context
of its objectives of conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of
benefits arising from use of such resources, places special emphasis on the
fact that there has to be fair and equitable sharing of benefits with local and
indigenous communities. However, certain critical issues remain unresolved,
particularly in relation to how to go about legalising and formalising.
Today, tribal and
rural women and men conserve and improve biodiversity for public and commercial
good at personal cost. No further time should be lost in ending the present
unethical situation where such primary conservers live in poverty, while those
who utilise their knowledge and the products of their in-situ on –farm
conservation culture become prosperous.
Despite the
ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by most countries,
many organisations and private companies are not aware of implications of
the exploitation of national bio-resources by multinational
pharmaceutical companies on intellectual property rights .Few organisations and
even fewer companies understand the implications of this Convention on trade in
medicinal plants. The Secretariat of the CBD and other Intergovernmental
Organisations can play a vital role in ensuring that the objectives of the CBD
are better understood and implemented with regard to medicinal plants,
Indigenous knowledge, bio prospecting, trade and benefit sharing.
The organisers of the workshop hope
to have participants’ views on the right issues in the intellectual property,
benefit sharing and bio-prospecting field relevant to poor people and
developing countries. Among issues that need consideration by workshop
participants include:
How bio-prospecting and
intellectual property rights could work better to promote development in
developing countries and reduce poverty.
What is the relationship between Indigenous knowledge, benefit sharing
and IPRs. How can they best use intellectual property rights to promote health
and biodiversity conservation? How important are IP, benefit sharing and
bio-prospecting practices for better health, particularly of poor people? In
what ways are they important (or not) and why? In the light of the above, what
sort of proposals for modifications of current practices? What changes might
one consider in the governance and operations of important institutions like
WTO and WIPO to reflect better the interests of developing countries. How does one build IP capacity in developing
countries? How should we view the
evolution of international rules and practices to take account of the interests
of developing countries?
I 2. WORKSHOP CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGY
In many developing countries,
creative people are experimenting with local initiatives to improve the
conservation and management of natural resources and the livelihood of those
who benefit from them. Unfortunately, the lessons from one effort are rarely
shared with others. Why? The costs of capturing lessons learned from different
parts of the World and sharing them has always been very high. Research reports
that are commissioned to synthesize lessons learned are typically years out of
date before they are published. And when
these documents are published, photocopying constraints make them difficult to
obtain. In the end, the thousands of experiences of hard working individuals
are lost.
Furthermore even when they are
published in time, they do not report on community experiences and actions. The
reason behind this is that the hard work carried by local communities
themselves without supervision of professionals or scientists is ignored and
considered not to be reliable because it has not been undertaken using standard
scientific methodologies or guidelines. Many organisations have been claiming
of successes in conservation of medicinal plants. However many people are not
aware of these achievements at the community level. On the other hand most
publications have been reporting on the status of conservation of medicinal
plants. There is little knowledge on what is going on at the field level.
The International workshop on
sustainable use and Conservation of Medicinal Plants Resources is expected to
be practical and down-to-earth forum that allows interactive discussion. Participants are invited to look for background documentation
on the work that has been already carried out on the issues to be addressed by
the Workshop.
It is expected that the workshop will bring together a
multi-disciplinary group representatives from environmental NGOs, grassroots
organisations, research institutions, private companies, universities and
governments. The workshop is seen as a networking opportunity for participants.
The basic format for workshop sessions will be a short presentation by key
speakers. This will be followed by an open discussion with workshop
participants. It will be a forum for
discussions among importers, exporters, processors, potential investors, and
controllers and promoters of trade in medicinal plants and herbal extracts
The workshop will be held over a 3-day period and divided
into a number of distinct sessions, which provided room for discussion, and
sharing of the lessons from the papers presented at the workshop and from field
experiences.
The participants
will be divided into thematic working groups to review specific topics in
detail and come up with proposals to solve identified problems. Examples of actions and success-stories will be highlighted to
show national and local efforts in promoting sustainable use and conservation
of medicinal plants. The workshop will examine each topic by
considering the link between medicinal biodiversity conservation, trade,
benefit sharing, indigenous knowledge and bio-prospecting. The plenary
sessions will be mainly devoted to keynote speeches, paper presentations,
discussion and feedback from working groups. Working group findings for the
thematic issues (round table discussions) will be presented in the plenary
sessions.
Representation will be from the local or international
pharmaceutical industry, trade associations, producers and processors,
exporting and importing firms, national and international bodies controlling or
promoting trade in medicinal herbs, relevant NGOs etc. In short, EIDD will go
for practitioners. The resource persons will be required to prepare case
studies as far as possible to avoid generalisation at the workshop. The papers
will mainly focus on production and trade related issues.
Presentations will last 15 minutes each, with a further 30
minutes for discussion. Discussion will
be preceded by two theme presentations by selected participants, followed by
two to three support presentations from those participants who had prepared
papers on subject areas falling within these thematic areas. These presentations will be used to derive
discussion points that provided a basis for the identification of issues for
consideration during group work sessions.
Group work sessions will be then followed by plenary sessions where the
findings from the groups will be presented.
Plenary sessions will also used to identify common interests among
participants on each thematic area. Views
and ideas from all participants will be treated as equal. All participants are resource persons for the
workshop and all selected paper presenters are key speakers.
I.3. WORKHOP OBJECTIVES
a) To discuss the present status, successful experiences and
perspectives of sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants in the
process of Indigenous knowledge, benefit sharing and bioprospecting;
b) To discuss the prerequisites for achieving sustainable use and
conservation of medicinal plants and
formulate relating proposals;
c) To assess the impact of trade in medicinal plants on the conservation
of the resource base;
d) To support the dissemination of successful experiences in the
areas of benefit sharing, bio-prospecting and Indigenous knowledge pertaining
to conservation and management of medicinal plants;
e) To identify key challenges experiences and opportunities in
promoting medicinal plants and natural products business and bio-prospecting;
f) To identify proposals for advancing indigenous knowledge,
bio-prospecting
and benefit sharing relating to medicinal plants and natural
products;
g) To give participants
a hands-on practical experience and working examples of
community action on
sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants.
h)
To provide an opportunity for networking
with colleagues, for new contacts and initiation of proposals in the sector
I.4.WORKSHOP AGENDA
WEDNESDAY
01 May 2002 (International Holiday)
14H00—22H00 Registration
THURSDAY 02 APRIL
09h00 – 9h30h Opening Session
09h30 - 10h00 Refreshments
ACTION AND PROPOSALS FOR SUSTAINABLE USE
AND CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS:
10h00 -11h00 Key
Speakers presentations and questions
Participants’
questions
11h00 -12h00 Participants’ Presentations
12h00-13h00 Discussions
13h00 -14-00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h30 Working Groups Session
15h30 - 16h00 Refreshments
16h00 - 18h00 Working Groups presentations and Discussions
18h00-19h00 Networking,
posters and Exhibition
19h00 - 20h00 Reception or Diner (Own arrangement)
FRIDAY
03 MAY 2002
TRADE AND BIPROSPECTING IN MEDICINAL
PLANTS
09h00 - 10h15 Key
Speakers’ Presentations
Participants’
questions
10h15 - 10h30 Refreshments
10h30 - 12h00 Participants presentations
12h00 - 13h00 Discussions
13h00-14h3 Launch
14h30 - 16h00 Working Groups Session
16h00 - 16h15 Refreshments
16h15 - 18h00 Working Group Presentations and Discussion
18h00-19h00 Networking,
Posters and exhibition
19h00 –20h00 Reception or Diner (Own arrangement)
SATURDAY
04 MAY 2002
BIOPROSPECTING, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND
BENEFIT SHARING
09h00 - 10h15 Key Speakers’ Presentations
Participants’
questions
10h15 - 10h30 Refreshments
10h30 - 12h00 Participants presentations
12h00 - 13h00 Discussions
13h00-14h30 Launch
14h30 - 16h00 Working Groups Session
16h00 - 16h15 Refreshments
16h15 - 18h00 Working Group Presentations and Discussion
18h00-19h00 Closing Session
19h00 –22h00 Cocktail or Diner (Own arrangement)
Networking, social and Cultural event
SUNDAY
05 MAY 2002:
10H00-16h00 GUIDED
EXCURSION
MONDAY
6 MAY 2002 DEPARTURE or
HOLIDAY in Morocco.
II.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
To submit abstracts, to register or for inquiries, please
contact:
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words. They should be submitted
in electronic way only. They should be
in English. We encourage submission of papers and posters addressing local
experiences and dimensions of the theme listed below.
Electronic submission only:
Electronic submission should be in plain ASCII text email
message giving the following details:
NAME: Name of first author
TITLE: Title of the paper
EMAIL: E-mail address of the first author
ADDR: Postal address of
the first author
TEL: Telephone number
of the first author, if any
FAX: Fax number of the
first author
III.
Guidelines for Full Papers
a) Participants may present their papers on the
following issues:
·
Actions, experiences
and success-stories on sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants at
the community level;
·
Impact of informal
and formal trade on conservation of medicinal plants;
·
Experiences and
opportunities for sustainable harvest and management of medicinal plants;
·
Promoting the
conservation and management of medicinal wildlife resources;
·
Medicinal wildlife
resource inventories and information management, business development and
technology access.
·
Capacity Building
for conservation and management;
·
Bio-prospecting and
benefit Sharing: some practical experiences and prospects;
·
Business strategies
for bio-prospecting in developing countries and Income generation through
bio-prospecting;
·
Options for national
policies and legislation to access genetic resources
·
Options for
legislation, policies and incentives to add value to genetic resources and
increase capacity in bio-prospecting
·
Constraints and
strategies for encouraging biotechnology-based business in developing
countries;
·
Feasible proposals
for enhancing equitable benefits of conservation;
- Current
trends in the protection of medicinal plants intellectual property rights;
- Contribution
of traditional knowledge to bio-prospecting and drug discovery;
·
How intellectual property rights and bio-prospecting could
work better for the benefit of developing countries and poor people;
- What
improvements might be considered in the way international institutions
governing IP work (rules and practices) in the interests of developing
countries?
- Contribution of traditional knowledge practices to
conservation, cultivation and management of medicinal plants
- Methods for Identification and
conservation of medicinal plants in trade and endangered species.
- The contribution of forests in community health
care (e.g. linkages between forestry and health, destruction of forest and
its impacts and consequences to the health of people, various ways in
which the health of people is affected through the destruction of forests,
etc.);
- Propagation and domestication of medicinal plants
(e.g. successful experiences at the village level), over harvesting and
controlled harvesting, resource management;
- Overview of the traded medicinal plants sector and
its potential for community development;
- Strategies to enhance income generation and benefit
sharing from medicinal plants and traditional medicine bio-prospecting;
- Intellectual
Property Rights – the Convention on Biodiversity – its impact on trade
- Conservation,
wild harvesting and the protection of endangered medicinal plants
b) Composition of text:
Language:
English should be used.
Papers in French may be produced for distribution to participants or as
posters but NOT for presentation since the working language of the workshop is
only English. No simultaneous
interpreting is envisaged. Statements such as “ the date will be discussed “ or
the “extracts were found to be active
for…” as the end of the story are not acceptable.
Structure and Composition of text:
The paper shall include the following parts: title, name(s),
company/organisation address(es), telecommunication numbers, possible e-mail
address(es) and website(s) of author(s), abstract, keywords, introduction,
material and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, and literature cited.
Please underline the name of the author presenting the paper. Type the names of the authors in bold. Leave
free blank lines before starting the text.
All draft texts should be followed by a transmission date.
1.The title should be brief but specific
enough to indicate the contents or describing the nature of the investigation.
2.The abstract should be no longer than 15 lines (75 characters
per line), and should
concisely and non-technically summarise the contents of the
paper. A maximum of 5 keywords should be added.
3.Maximum length of a complete paper is 10 pages including
illustrations (60 lines per page, 75 characters per line).
4 Use standard symbols for measurements and the International
System (S.I.) for units.
Abbreviations should be spelled out at the first occurrence
with the abbreviation, in parentheses, immediately following.
5 Each illustration (table, figure, picture) should be provided
separately with a title, numbered consecutively and referred to in the text.
6.All literature used during the preparation of the paper
should be acknowledged in the literature cited, alphabetically by author, and,
for more publications by the same author, according to the year of publication.
7.Sequence: name of author, initials, year of publication,
title, periodical or publisher, number of pages as shown below.
The titles of periodicals should be in italics, and should not
be abbreviated. In the text reference, the date should follow the author's last
name without a comma.
c) Layout of papers:
Computers, Word Processing Programs,
Transmission File, Typewriter Use a standard PC word processing program,
preferably WORD and transmit the text in
the
.rtf format. Please bring a diskette containing the full paper.
d) Format and Characters:
These guidelines are presented exactly as your paper should
appear:
A4 paper size, all margins set to 2.5 cm, Times New Roman font,
no syllabication, no indentation except for literature cited, italics for Latin
names in text and periodicals in literature cited, single-spaced lines with one
free line between paragraphs, centred title (font 16), Main headings (14),
Intermediate headings (12), Subheadings (11), text (10).
If you
choose to participate in the international Workshop, please send your abstract
and full paper to: Ernest@conserveafrica.org
or cai@conserveafrica.org;
Fax:+442089482673;
htpp://www.conserveafrica.org
If you would like to participate in the
International Colloquium, please send your abstract and full paper to : E-mail:
hmamouchim@hotmail.com
or hmamouchim@wanadoo.net.ma
IV. TIMING OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Keynote lectures are 30 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for
discussion. Free communications are 15 minutes including discussion
V. AUDIOVISUAL FACILITIES:
Slide, overhead and data (with Power Point programme)
projectors will be available. Slide
frames must be 5x5 cm in size, and no thinner than 2 mm.
VI. CALL FOR POSTERS
Posters on projects, experiences and case- studies pertaining
to workshops objectives are welcome. Posters will be on display during the
entire workshop. If you wish to present a poster, please indicate as such on
the registration form or in a separate letter or e-mail. Please provide
abstract (100 words or less) for each poster.
Please also specify the material required for your exhibition. The
Workshop and the Colloquium will provide an excellent opportunity to display
your new products, technologies, activities and accomplishments. If you wish to
exhibit, please note this the registration form. Please be prepared to give
handouts of your poster.
VII.
PROCEEDINGS
A booklet of the programme and abstracts booklet will be
available to each delegate with registration. If you wish to make a poster
presentation or exhibit please forward a short description or abstract by 26
February 2002 for inclusion in the booklet.
A proceedings book will be compiled after the meeting and will
include the presentations and highlights of the discussions, a list of
posters/exhibits and contact lists of delegates.
VIII.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission deadline: 25 March 2002
Full Paper
8 April 2002
Payment of Registration fees: 10 April
2002
Colloquium/Workshop 2-4 May 2000
IX. REGISTRATION FORM
Delegate Information:
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1.International colloquium on Medicinal Plants, 1.Health and
Environment ---- YES /NO (Please delete
as appropriate)
2.International workshop on sustainable trade and Conservation
of medicinal plants---YES/NO
(Please delete as
appropriate).
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Arrival
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Departure
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PLEASE RETURN before 26 February 2002 BY
FAX or EMAIL to addresses above
If you choose to participate in the
international Workshop, please send your registration form to: The Workshop
Coordinator at cai@conserveafrica.org; Fax:+442089482673; htpp://www.conserveafrica.org
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If you would like to participate in the International
Colloquium, please send your registration form to: E-mail: hmamouchim@hotmail.com
or hmamouchim@wanadoo.net.ma
X. REGISTRATION
FEES:
US $295 for all private companies based in
the North;
US $265 for all private companies based in
the South;
US $245 for International Organisations,
Government/Academic Institutions,
Non-profit Organisations and Individuals
based in the North (Western Countries),
US $195 for International Organisations,
Government/Academic Institutions and
Non-profit organisations based in the
South
US $ 165 for NGOs and individuals based in
the South Deadline for registration
and payment of registration fees: 31 March
2002.
US$ 150 for Students
Deadline for registration and payment of
registration fees: 31 March 2002.
After 31 March 2002, registration fees
will increase at the rate of US $100 per participant.
XI. PAYMENT:
If you choose to participate in the
international Workshop, please contact us at:
Workshop Coordinator at info@conserveafrica.org; for more information about mode of payment.
Tel: +442084434852;Fax: +442089482673
If you would like to participate in the International Colloquium,
please contact:: E-mail: hmamouchim@hotmail.com
or hmamouchim@wanadoo.net.ma
for more information about mode of payment.
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