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Local knowledge in community-based approaches to medicinal plant conservation: lessons from India
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BACKGROUND: Community-based approaches to conservation of natural resources, in particular medicinal plants, have attracted attention of governments, non governmental organizations and international funding agencies. This paper highlights the community-based approaches used by an Indian NGO, the Rural Communes Medicinal Plant Conservation Centre (RCMPCC). The RCMPCC recognized and legitimized the role of local medicinal knowledge along with other knowledge systems to a wider audience, i.e. higher levels of government. METHODS: Besides a review of relevant literature, the research used a variety of qualitative techniques, such as semi-structured, in-depth interviews and participant observations in one of the project sites of RCMPCC. RESULTS: The review of local medicinal plant knowledge systems reveals that even though medicinal plants and associated knowledge systems (particularly local knowledge) are gaining wider recognition at the global level, the efforts to recognize and promote the un-codified folk systems of medicinal knowledge are still inadequate. In country like India, such neglect is evident through the lack of legal recognition and supporting policies. On the other hand, community-based approaches like local healers' workshops or village biologist programs implemented by RCMPCC are useful in combining both local (folk and codified) and formal systems of medicine. CONCLUSION: Despite the high reliance on the local medicinal knowledge systems for health needs in India, the formal policies and national support structures are inadequate for traditional systems of medicine and almost absent for folk medicine. On the other hand, NGOs like the RCMPCC have demonstrated that community-based and local approaches such as local healer's workshops and village biologist program can synergistically forge linkages between local knowledge with the formal sciences (in this case botany and ecology) and generate positive impacts at various levels.
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“Even though the Ayurvedic and Siddha TSMs were codified more than 3,000 years ago, they represent the codification, and thus institutionalisation, of practices communities had been testing, designing, and using for thousands of years before that, passing the information down through oral tradition just like folk medicine (Shukla & Gardner 2006, Astutik et al. 2019).”
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“With 'more than seventy percent of the population in the developing world' and 'more than eighty percent of the population of South Asia' using medicinal plants for maintaining and improving health, India is an example of a country that has a widely used folk system of medicinal knowledge (Shukla & Gardner 2006;Astutik, Pretzsch & Ndzifon Kimengsi 2019).”
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“To respond to the challenge of the use and conservation of medicinal plants, a natural resource, Indian communities developed three designs.Communities developed traditional systems of medicine (TSMs) that codified medical plant knowledge in texts or ancient scriptures (Ayurvedic, Siddha, etc.).Communities also developed folk medicine in which knowledge is learned by doing and passed down through”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shukla, S., & Gardner, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Manitoba (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Shukla, Shailesh
- ORCID
- Shukla, Shailesh
- Venue
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
- Published
- 2006-04-07
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-20
- ISSN
- 1746-4269 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1459109
- OpenAlex
- W2155957969
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- WinnSpace (University of Winnipeg) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- International Development Research Centre
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- medicinal plant conservation, local knowledge, community-based conservation, traditional medicine, folk medicine, knowledge policy, India
- MeSH terms
- Conservation of Natural Resources, Data Collection, Female, Geography, Humans, India, Interviews as Topic, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Medicine, Ayurvedic, Medicine, Traditional, Organizations, Plant Extracts, Plants, Medicinal, Public Policy, Residence Characteristics, Rural Population, Global Health, Herbal Medicine, Qualitative Research
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