Medicinalplant cultivation and sustainable development : a case study in the Buffer Zone of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, India
Biodiversité ; Développement durable ; Economie rurale ; Ethnobotanique ; Himalaya ; Inde ; Montagne ; Plante médicinale ; Réserve de biosphère ; Uttar Pradesh
medicinalplants. Goal of this study was to understand the socioeconomics of medicinalplant cultivation and evaluate the prospects of this practice in promoting sustainable development among the Bhotiya. - (SLD)
Trading in the dark - The medicinalplants production network in Uttarakhand
Agriculture ; Développement rural ; Inde ; Intermédiaire ; Organisation ; Plante cultivée ; Plante médicinale ; Réseau de production ; Uttaranchal
Agriculture ; Cultivated plants ; India ; Organization ; Production network ; Rural development ; Uttaranchal
clandestine structures of illegal trade and contribute towards a redesign of the medicinalplant network in a more equitable and transparent way.
The paper identifies structures and entities hindering medical plant cultivation and its potentials. The case study focuses on the middlemen and their hidden embeddedness. It shows how organizations and farmers' institutions can help to overcome
Reviews the conflicts between the rich biodiversity of Chiapas and poverty, population pressure, environmental degradation, and political conflict. Main example of biodiversity discussed are the wild medicinalplants used by the Maya. The Maya
International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (Maya ICBG) is encouraging cultivation of medicinalplants and the exploration of potential markets. - (SLD)
Investigation of trade in medicinal and aromatic products (MAP) from the rural areas of Gorkha District in central Nepal to the wholesale markets in India over two-year period. Authors found 36 products, almost all of which were exported unprocessed
Plantes médicinales, toxiques et mellifères de la Belgique et des régions voisines : un inventaire bibliographique
This inventory is dealing with all known plants in Belgium and adjoining countries. Tables give medicinal, toxic, nectariferous and polliniferous properties with bibliographic references. - (L. W.).
This article addresses the trends, problems and opportunities attending the cultivation and marketing of medicinal and spice plants in Germany. The years since 1993 have seen an expansion in their cultivation to a current area of some 10,000
Useful plants within a campesino community in a Costa Rican Montane Cloud Forest
. Out of 590 known species, 189 are considered useful, of which 24% were used for medicines, 40% for food, and 24% for construction or fuel. Use of indigenous species is becoming less common and knowledge about medicinalplants is expected to disappear
An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in a campesino community (San Gerardo de Dota) in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest. Families were asked how they used indigenous and introduced vascular plants along an altitude gradient of 2000 to 3000 m
soon in the rural community. Appendix lists all useful plants with information on each. - (SLD)
L'A. utilise un ensemble de données précieuses sur cette plante en tant que produit agricole, commercial, médicinal et culturel. L'ouvrage comporte deux parties, présentant les aspects historiques et actuels, depuis l'étymologie du mot jusqu'aux
qualités thérapeutiques de la plante, en passant par les côtés techniques de sa culture. - (ABSTR. IR.).
Negotiating health and identity : lay healing, medicinalplants, and indigenous healthscapes in Highland Peru
Négocer la santé et l'identité : guérison, plantes médicinales et santé dans les régions montagneuses du Pérou
Andes ; Biomédecine ; Communauté ; Culturel ; Maladie ; Minorité ethnique ; Médecine traditionnelle ; Plante médicinale ; Pérou ; Réseau de sociabilité ; Santé ; Services de santé
Les AA. étudient le comportement des habitants d’un village d’un village péruvien vis-à-vis de la biomédecine, de la médicine traditionnelle et de la guérison par les plantes. Ils expliquent que leurs choix reflètent des processus culturels et
Environmental impact of introducing plant covers in the taluses of terraces : implications for mitigating agricultural soil erosion and runoff
Agropédologie ; Andalucía ; Couverture végétale ; Erosion des sols ; Erosion hydrique ; Espagne ; Granada ; Lutte contre l'érosion ; Métaux lourds ; Plante aromatique ; Plante médicinale ; Qualité de l'eau ; Sol cultivé ; Terrasse ; Zone
Agropedology ; Andalusia ; Cultivated land ; Erosion control ; Granada ; Heavy metals ; Plant cover ; Soil erosion ; Spain ; Subtropical zone ; Terrace ; Water erosion ; Water quality
The aim of this study was to test, under field conditions, the response of runoff, soil erosion, nutrient, carbon losses, and heavy-metal transport to different plant covers, including aromatic and medicinalplants and native vegetation during two
hydrological years. The study area is located in a coastal area of the south-eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula at Almuñécar (Granada, SE Spain). The results support the recommendation of using plant covers with multiple purposes (aromatic–medicinal–culinary
Changes in medicinal crop production in the urban shadow of Beijing metropolis under agricultural structure adjustment : a case study of Zhengzhang Village, Hebei Province, China
Agriculture ; Ajustement structurel ; Chine ; Exploitation agricole ; Hebei ; Plante médicinale ; Production agricole ; Utilisation agricole du sol ; Village
Changements en matière de production agricole dans ce village chinois pas très éloigné de Pékin : production de plantes médicinales. Depuis l'ère des réformes, certains ménages agricoles ont misé sur cette stratégie afin d'augmenter leurs revenus
Présentation des ressources biologiques de la RSSA de Carélie: ressources de chasse et de pêche, baies d'intérêt médicinal, plantes sauvages comestibles, tourbe et déchets de l'industrie du bois. (R.Z., 1984, 3 E 57).
L'accent est mis sur l'usage de plantes médicinales par les habitants de cette zone. Des interviews ont été effectués pour évaluer leurs connaissances ethno-médicales et leurs pratiques médicales actuelles. Leur connaissance traditionnelle des
plantes est assez poussée, et ils les utilisent quel que soient l'âge ou le sexe.
Arusha ; Disease ; Ethnic community ; Ethnobotany ; Health ; Maasai ; Medical plant ; Social status ; Socio-economic system ; Tanzania ; Traditional medicine ; Village
qui cherchent à améliorer leur faible niveau de vie. Elles connaissent les plantes médicinales et en font commerce. Elles deviennent de véritables experts professionnels en ville. Les AA. analysent alors les plantes médicales les plus fréquemment
Dooryard gardens in Moyobamba, Peru, have been productive agricultural systems since the seventeenth century. Fruit trees and an understory of many other useful plants provide food, fiber, and medicinals to the houshold in what was once an isolated
and religious/medicinalplants. Nonmaterial effects centered on educating children about cropping and nature. Study is based on fieldwork in three small cities in the Kaqchikel region of Guatemala. - (SLD)
AA. analyze the different management systems of timur, a medicinalplant regularly traded with India, in Nepalese forests. Four different management systems on open-access state lands, two different types of community-controlled lands, and private