Bio-diversity

This project aims at the integration of popular traditional knowledge, thus promoting community experiences with Cerrado medicinal plant use and developing exchange of information among these experiences. Organizations in the Cerrado Network and other segments will be brought together in favor of sustainable use of this biome s resources. The following activities are planned: formation of the teams; participative diagnosis of the experiences with medicinal plants; ethnopharmacological research in the communities; assessment of local community knowledge on medicinal plants; botanical identification of the plants found; data organization; identification of other experiences with medicinal plants such as in hospitals, universities and other institutions; seminars for dissemination of the results; publications. This will take place in Mineiros and Rio Verde, state of Goi s, Belo Horizonte, Jequitinhonha Valley and northern Minas Gerais state.

Brazil