Medicinal and aromatic plants in agroforestry systems

Rao, M. R.; Palada, M.C.; Becker, Brian N.

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2424-1_8

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“…27,28 Another agricultural product is medicinal plants, many of which are believed to be effective in the treatment of certain diseases. 29 Incorporating proe e duction of medicinal plants into agrie e cultural systems, such as agroforestry, has the potential to address some of the problems related to overeharvesting of medicinal plants in the wild, while meeting the demand for these plants on global export markets. 3 In the other direction, health affects people's abilities, needs and desires to consume different amounts and types of food, which in turn affects demand from agricultural systems and the types of products.…”

Section: Agricultural Outputsmentioning

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The links between agriculture and health: an intersectoral opportunity to improve the health and livelihoods of the poor

Hawkes

Ruel

2006

Bull World Health Organ

114

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Agriculture and health are linked in many ways. First, agriculture is essential for good health: it produces the world's food, fibre and materials for shelter; in many countries it is also an important source of livelihood among the poor. At the same time, agriculture can be linked with poor health, including malnutrition, malaria, foodborne illnesses, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), livestock-related diseases, chronic diseases and occupational ill-health.Health also affects agriculture: people's health status influences the demand for agricultural outputs, and in agricultural communities, poor health reduces work performance, reducing income and productivity and perpetuating a downward spiral into ill-health.This paper presents an overview of the bidirectional links between agriculture and health with a focus on the developing world. It develops a conceptual framework that brings together the various links between agriculture and health into a single broad framework. The framework comprises the core components of the agricultural supply chain (producers, systems and outputs), key health concerns and the mechanisms of common interaction between the agricultural and health components: income, labour, environment and access -all key social determinants of health.These links between agriculture and health present an opportunity for the two sectors to work together to find solutions to each other's problems. Yet the health and agricultural sectors remain poorly coordinated. Leadership from global health and agricultural institutions is needed to build policies and good governance to facilitate integration, while capacity building is needed at all levels to help translate the conceptual links into comprehensive action on the ground. Health and agricultural researchers likewise need to work more closely together to achieve common goals. Voir page 989 le résumé en français. En la página 989 figura un resumen en español.

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Section: Agricultural Outputsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The links between agriculture and health: an intersectoral opportunity to improve the health and livelihoods of the poor

Hawkes

Ruel

2006

Bull World Health Organ

114

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“…Unskilled collection and overexploitation are key threats for extended dwindling status of important temperate medicinal plants (Bhadula et al 2000). Mountain agro-ecosystems also offer convenient ways for harvesting of minor forest products (having medicinal value) without transforming these wellacclimatized ecosystems (Rao et al 2004). Cultivation of medicinal plants is useful for reducing the pressures on wild plants and improvement of rural economy (Hamilton 2004).…”

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Trends in the marketing of some important medicinal plants in Uttarakhand, India

Kuniyal

Kuniyal²,

Butola

et al. 2013

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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Cultivation of threatened medicinal plants and sustainable harvesting of minor forest products is important for conservation of rare species and improvement of rural economies. An analysis of the trends in marketing of four medicinal plants, two cultivated (Saussurea lappa and Picrorhiza kurrooa) and two off-farm harvested medicinal plants (Sapindus mukorossi and Cinnamomum tamala), was conducted in Uttarakhand, India from 2007 to 2011. Data on volumes harvested and marketed was obtained from the Herbal Research and Development Institute and the Herbal Pharmaceutical Development Unit. Despite the low volume produced from the two cultivated species (on average 4.19 MT/year) compared to over 600.00 MT/year for the two off-farm species, they were marketed at better prices as compared to the off-farm harvested species: about 3.0 US$/kg as opposed to almost 0.50 $/kg. The total annual value of the cultivated species was almost 11.000 $/year and 290.000 US$ for the off-farm harvested species (based on sustainable use levels).In general, harvesting rates of all selected species increased in the years studied. The cultivated Saussurea lappa and Picrorhiza kurrooa are among the rare but globally significant medicinal plants, therefore, cultivation of these herbs is important for their conservation. Considerable quantities of Sapindus mukorossi and Cinnamomum tamala are marketed and these species seem to be pivotal for improvement of the rural economy.Little information is available on the policies for documentation of cultivation, sustainable harvesting, and trends in the marketing of medicinal plants from Indian Himalayan region (IHR). This communication is therefore important to understand the trends in the use of selected species in the Uttarakhand, IHR.

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“…Further, the degree of threat to natural populations of medicinal plants has increased because more than 90% of medicinal plant raw material for herbal industries in India and also for export is drawn from natural habitats (Dhar et al 2002, Sajem et al 2008. There are many other potential causes of rarity in medicinal plant species, such as habitat specificity, narrow range of distribution, land use disturbance, introduction of non-natives, habitat alteration, climatic changes, heavy livestock grazing, explosion of human population, fragmentation and degradation of population, plant population bottlenecks and genetic drift , 2005, Oostermeijer et al 2003, Rao et al 2004, Sajem et al 2008, Weekley & Race 2000. Over-exploitation of these species, as well as trampling during collection has changed their habitat conditions causing a gradual loss of other associated species (Rai et al 2000).…”

Section: Anthropocentric Approach: Threat To Ethnomedicinal Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnomedicinal Plants of India with Special Reference to an Indo-Burma Hotspot Region: An overview

Kumar

Lalramnghinglova

2011

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Medicinal and aromatic plants in agroforestry systems

Cited by 97 publications

References 22 publications

The links between agriculture and health: an intersectoral opportunity to improve the health and livelihoods of the poor

The links between agriculture and health: an intersectoral opportunity to improve the health and livelihoods of the poor

Trends in the marketing of some important medicinal plants in Uttarakhand, India

Ethnomedicinal Plants of India with Special Reference to an Indo-Burma Hotspot Region: An overview

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