Table 3. Examples of activities in medicinal plants sponsored by non-UN and UN agencies
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ACTIVITIES |
REMARKS |
ASCOPAP |
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EFMC |
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ESCOP |
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FAO |
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FIADREP |
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GIFTS |
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Africa: - Recognition of emerging interest in the traditional medicine in treatment of endemic diseases such as AIDS, malaria and other parasitic diseases - Need for community-based medicinal plant conservation and cultivation programmes - Recognition of women as traditional practitioners of herbal medicine in need of appropriate support and training |
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Asia: - Herbal and medicinal plant-based health care systems widely recognised - Need to counteract diminishing stocks of medicinal plants through conservation and cultivation programmes - Recognition of women as users, conservers and providers of traditional health services using herbs and medicinal plants |
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Latin America: - Traditional healthcare knowledge (using herbs and medicinal plants) - Concern over bioprospecting of untapped plant resources as sources of new biomolecules or genes of biopharmaceutical and agricultural significance |
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ICMAP |
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IOCD |
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IUCN |
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b. A Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy c. Wild plants of economic value |
TRAFFIC |
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UNESCO |
-potential loss of medicinal plant biodiversity resulting from over exploitation -loss of potential trade and commercial revenue -loss of potential economic incentive for
development |
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- Latin American and Caribbean Network of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants (LACINMAP) |
Activity set up in 1994 through UNESCO's Programme in General Information, Caracas, Venezuela* |
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-Development of physical, chemical and taxonomic database of medicinal plants -Development of information services and products for use by Member States |
Decentralised Network of following members - Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam |
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Activities in Africa and Asia subsume activities in predecessor networks such as the: |
Botany 2000-Asia is implemented by UNESCO's New Delhi Office and focuses on the taxonomy, and biological and cultural diversity of medicinal and ornamental plants, and their protection against environmental pollution |
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- Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa (NAPRECA), and the
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Botany 2000-Africa is implemented by UNESCO's Nairobi Office and deals with the conservation and use of the medicinal flora of Africa |
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UNIDO |
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WHO |
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WWF |
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- Assessments plant resources used by local communities in Uganda Pakistan and Nepal |
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-Developmental activities in primary health-care in Nepal and Uganda -Evaluation of the current role of ethnobotany in formal and informal education in six Central American states -Regional and international workshops on field methods in ethnobotany (Mexico), conservation of medicinal plants (Dominican Republic), joint forest management (India), the cultural context of ethnobotany (Thailand, China) and quantitative methods in ethnobotany (Kenya) -Studies of the use of plant resources by women for food, fuel and medicine in Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda |
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