Description: Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean

Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean

The issues of medical plant conservation have been the focus of many formal and informal discussions at national and international forums, seminars, workshops, conferences and congresses in the last 10 years. Caribbean and Central American countri...

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Main Author:	Lagos-Witte, Sonia
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	BASIN BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIODIVERSITY PROJECTS BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT BIODIVERSITY VALUES BIOLOGISTS BIOSPHERE BIOSPHERE RESERVE BOTANICAL GARDEN BOTANICAL GARDENS CENTRAL AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CONSERVATION CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT CONSERVATION ATLAS CONSERVATION EFFORTS CONSERVATION MONITORING CONSERVATION OF NATURE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS CONSERVATION STATUS CONSERVATION STRATEGY CONSERVATION TARGETS CULTIVATION CULTURAL DIVERSITY CULTURAL PRACTICES CULTURAL SYSTEMS DOMESTICATED SPECIES ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION ENDEMIC PLANTS ENDEMIC SPECIES ENDEMISM EXOTIC SPECIES FLORISTIC DIVERSITY FOREST FOREST ECOSYSTEM FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST PRODUCTS FORESTED AREAS FORESTS GERMPLASM GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HABITAT HABITAT DIVERSITY HABITATS HEALTH EDUCATION HOTSPOTS INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INTEGRATION ISSUES LIVING RESOURCES LOCAL COMMUNITIES MARKETING MEDICINAL PLANT MEDICINAL PLANT CONSERVATION MEDICINAL PLANTS NATIONAL PARK NATIVE SPECIES NGOS PLANT DIVERSITY PLANT SPECIES PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROTECTED AREAS PROTECTION PUBLIC HEALTH RAIN FOREST RAINFOREST REGIONAL CONSERVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM RESEARCH PROGRAMS SCIENTISTS SOUTH AMERICA SPECIES SPECIES DIVERSITY SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY TAXONOMIC STUDIES TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE TREES TROPICAL FOREST TROPICAL FORESTS UNIVERSITIES WILD SPECIES WILDLIFE WOOD WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/6996328/conservation-medicinal-plants-central-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10730

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Summary:	The issues of medical plant conservation have been the focus of many formal and informal discussions at national and international forums, seminars, workshops, conferences and congresses in the last 10 years. Caribbean and Central American countries are adopting common policies on medicinal plant conservation and establishing collaborative projects and appropriate agreements for research programs in order to achieve a new status for the protection of medicinal plant diversity. This paper for the most part reports on the the TRAMIL Program (Scientific Research on Medicinal Plants in the Caribbean Basin) coordinated since 1982. TRAMIL has focused on conserving traditional community knowledge of folk remedies, and providing scientific validation of safety and efficacy needed to encourage national health policies that include traditional medicine in primary health care programs.

Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean

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