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Traditional medicine: growing presence, resource concerns and possible solutions

Organizer
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

Date and Time
17 October 2014 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Over 60,000 of plants, most of them harvested from the wild, provide essential ingredients for traditional medicine systems and other industries, and support livelihoods of thousands of collectors around the world. Due to multiple reasons wild plants are endangered with one in five threatened with extinction in the wild. With the traditional medicine sector gaining momentum, a number of good practices – namely the FairWild Standard – were developed to provide the framework for industry, communities and government to foster sustainable harvest and equitable trade practices. The side event serves as an interactive platform for exchange and presents good practices and tools on promoting biodiversity conservation, traditional medicine systems and livelihood to foster sustainability through supply chains at multiple levels. It will highlight the relevance to the delivery against CBD’s work on ‘Biodiversity and Human Health’, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, the Nagoya Protocol, as well as the WHO/IUCN/WWF/TRAFFIC Guidelines on Conservation of Medicinal Plants (under finalization). The event will support the discussion around the implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Targets 4, 14, 13, 18 and 7 and the State of Knowledge review on Biodiversity and Human Health. The event will also focus on successful cases at the national and community levels. This will include the work in China with the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) industries (supported by the European Commission) and the implementation of international best practices for harvesting and trade in Ayurveda ingredients in Western Ghats of India, among others.