China, the origin and largest centre of manufacturing for a lot of plant supplies utilized in TCM, produces all kinds of plant-based natural medicines and components which might be consumed each inside China and worldwide.
Nevertheless, wild medicinal plant assets in China are beneath risk largely owing to over-harvesting to fulfill excessive demand from the TCM and natural merchandise trade. Poor administration isn’t solely threatening wild species but in addition the livelihoods of collectors and, finally, TCM healthcare techniques.
The EGP-MAPs undertaking (PDF leaflet: in English and Chinese) brings collectively stakeholders concerned alongside your complete provide chain—harvesters, conservation NGOs, trade associations, academia, authorities departments, and naturally the TCM trade and merchants to handle these points.
The undertaking makes use of the FairWild Customary (English version (PDF 1 MB), Chinese version (PDF, 500 KB)) as a best-practice framework for sustainable wild harvesting and equitable commerce in crops to underpin a long-term strategy in the direction of sustainability within the TCM trade, piloting a participatory strategy to governance of China’s wild plant assets.
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