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
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/6996328/conservation-medicinal-plants-central-america-caribbean
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spelling okr-10986-107302021-04-23T14:02:52Z Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean Lagos-Witte, Sonia 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 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. 2012-08-13T12:57:03Z 2012-08-13T12:57:03Z 2006-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/6996328/conservation-medicinal-plants-central-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10730 English Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 93 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic 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
spellingShingle 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
Lagos-Witte, Sonia
Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
relation Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 93
description 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.
format Publications & Research :: Brief
author Lagos-Witte, Sonia
author_facet Lagos-Witte, Sonia
author_sort Lagos-Witte, Sonia
title Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
title_short Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
title_full Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
title_fullStr Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
title_full_unstemmed Conservation of Medicinal Plants in Central America and the Caribbean
title_sort conservation of medicinal plants in central america and the caribbean
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url 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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