UNESCO/MOST

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This paper looks at the UNESCO/MOST Indigenous Knowledge Best Practice program, in particular a program in Africa designed to conserve native medicinal plants and the traditional medicine practices and knowledge associated with them.

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"The nature of the indigenous knowledge is the 'Medicinal Pants and Local Communities' (MPLC) in Africa. Promotion of local communities' strategies for the conservation of medicinal-plant genetic resources in Africa. (UNESCO) In Africa, more than X percent of the population relies on medicinal plants and animal-based medicines for their health care. (UNESCO) Most of the plants and animals used are collected from the wild. Plants provide most of the rural population of Africa with ingredients for traditional medicines. Small plots of land have been used for many generations as..."

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