[MPWG] Medicinal Plant Certification Pubs-My experiences

[pankaj oudhia]

''Early this month, I attended one more expensive workshop on forest certification at the star Hotel of Raipur. This is really sad to write that over 90 percent attendance were from the organizer’s department. The invited speakers from national and international level, reported the same lecture with same slides and workshop ended in no result. This is an important question that as the experts of requested organization, deliver over 7-8 lectures a week in different corners of the India and also in abroad, then when they work? How they spare time for so called sincere research for which they are called by the authorities to deliver lectures? During workshop, I interacted with an expert from neighbouring country and pointed out that "Sir, I am listening the same lecture (with same slides) in different forums, for the sixth times, from you." He replied that actually he has no new matter and assured me that he will read my articles at Botanical.com and add the findings in his lectures.
 This is a trend in India. The field workers are dedicating their lives for sincere works and these so called experts are presenting it in national and international levels without acknowledging them. I do not think that this is good sign and there is any promising future of this trend.''
 
(Source:Traditional medicinal knowledge about useful herb Semal (Bombax ceiba, family : Bombacaceae) in Chhattisgarh, India by Pankaj Oudhia
 
http://botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/151_semai.html  )
 
 
 
regards
 
Pankaj Oudhia
http://www.pankajoudhia.com
 




"Eric T. Jones" <etj-list at ifcae.org> wrote:
Two recent publications on NTFP certification that address medicinal plants:

Tapping the Green Market: Certification and Management of Non-Timber Forest Products.  2002.  Guillen, Laird, Shanley, Pierce (eds). London: Earthscan 
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3827

Patrick Mallet. 2002.  "Case Study: Certification of Nontimber Forest Products." In, Nontimber Forest Products in the United States.  Jones, McLain, Weigand (eds). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/jonnon.html

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