Publication: Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
Date
2006-06
ISSN
Published
2006-06
Author(s)
Lagos-Witte, Sonia
Abstract
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.
Citation
“Lagos-Witte, Sonia. 2006. Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 93. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/973fb07a-0b59-5925-9fb9-ff75383e5028 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”