Side Event

South America Medicinal Plants Network: dialogues for sustainability

Organizer
Pacari Network- Medicinal Plants of Cerrado

Date and Time
20 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15

Meeting
Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8)

The South America Medicinal Plants Network is made up of local groups, NGO, researchres, universities and other colaborators. It is organized in national networks of the following countries: Brazil (“Articulação Pacari” - Medicinal Plants of Cerrado), Argentina (“Rede Salud y Plantas”), Uruguay (“Articulación Uruguai”) and Chile (“Articulación Chile”). The Network was created in 1998 with the objective of promoting sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants, garanteeing full access to medicinal plants by local comunities. It also works towards stimulating the creation of spaces for reflection and constrution of knowledge, using as a starting point the dialogue between various methods of investigation, experimentation and systematization of actions developed in different countries.