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Organizations and Initiatives
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Centre for Traditional Medicine and Drug Research at the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
CGIAR Platform on Agriculture and Health at Int'l Food Policy Research Institute IFRPRI aims to improve the health of the poor, reduce malnutrition and food insecurity, and promote pro-poor agricultural development, by encouraging closer collaboration between the agriculture and health sectors.
COST Action E39: Forests, Trees and Human Health and Wellbeing. The main objective of this European network is to increase the knowledge about the contribution that forests, trees and natural places make, and might make, to the health and wellbeing of people in Europe. The benefit will be a better understanding and improved description and evaluation of processes and pathways linking forests to human health and well being.
Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin (AGEM) (newsletter)
Forest bioproducts and non-timber forest products. Natural Resources Canada.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Medical Plants Programme.
Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions - FRLHT. The mission is to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Indian Medical Heritage by designing and implementing innovative programmes related to exposition of the theory & practice of traditional systems of medicine; conservation of the natural resources used by Indian systems of medicine; and revitalisation of social processes for transmission of the heritage.
Non-timber forest products (NTFP): Medicinal products at Virginia Tech provides information in simple formats and serve as a national clearing house that is useful by NTFP harvesters and growers, marketers, processors, and end-users.
Novel drug development platform seeks to establish a scientific biotechnology infrastructure in South Africa for research and development of novel medicines and tonics from traditional medicinal plants used in southern Africa.
IUFRO Task Force on Improving the Lives of People in Forests will pull together materials that will help others work more effectively with peoples living in and around forests.
IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge aims at increasing understanding of the inter-relationships between traditional and formal (scientific) forest-related knowledge and at catalyzing potential synergistic application(s) to sustainable forest management.
People and Plants International (PPI) is a non-profit organization of ethnoecologists devoted to conservation and the sustainable use of plant resources around the world.
The programme "Promotion and Development of Non-wood Forest Products (NWFP)" is one of the priority areas of FAO's Forestry Department. The mission is to improve the sustainable utilization of NWFP in order to contribute to the wise management of the world's forests, to conserve their biodiversity, and to improve income-generation and food security.