Reviews, analyses and other projects on medicinal plant conservation

Conservation Methodologies

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: the approach and experience of FRLHT

Local health traditions

Trainer's module on documentation and assessment of local health traditions, developed by FRLHT

Sustainable wild harvesting

Review paper on sustainable harvesting (pdf 536kb). From Plant Talk No. 43, pages 32-35 (2006). Reproduced with permission.

Sustainable wild harvesting – issues of definition

Industry role in medicinal plant conservation

The case of Pukka Herbs

Certification of medicinal plants

Developing organic certification for more sustainable harvesting of wild medicinal plants (paper presented at the 1 st IFOAM International Conference on Organic Wild Production, 3-4 May 2006, Teslić, Bosnia (pdf 80kb).

Two reports by Ajay Rastogi (FAO, formerly of Ecoserve), describing progress on encouraging medicinal plant growing and organic certification in Uttaranchal (India), for conservation and income

Organic certification of members of Grower Forum: a feasibility assessment, by Ajay Rastogi (pdf 273kb).

FSC Certification feasibility assessment report, by Ajay Rastogi and Ruchi Pant (at Great Himalayan National Park) (pdf 1398kb).

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