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Sustainable Management Plan for Medicinal Cerrado Plants in the Brumado Legal Reserve
Plano de Manejo Sustentável de Plantas Medicinais do Cerrado na Reserva Legal da Fazenda Brumado

This project seeks to consider popular wisdom in relation to sustainable use of the Cerrado as an alternative to deforestation with a management plan for medicinal plant collection as its goal. The activities will take place in a legal reserve of a family's rural property, in the state of Goiás. The intention is to have a pilot experience to be multiplied in other regions and incorporated into Government programs. Eight "medicinal plant popular pharmacies" in the Vermelho River region will be supplied with quality-controlled raw materials.

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Grantee:

Pastoral da Saúde de Itaberaí

Country:

Brazil

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 18,266.32

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 11,640.29

Project Number:

BRA/04/22

Start Date:

11/2004

End Date:

6/2007

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

56 environmental and health agents/monitors will be trained through sharing of knowledge and visits to the management plan area. The management plan will train representatives from the communities for operational planning for medicinal plant collection, especially regarding: what to collect (which species), where to collect (density and frequency of the species), when to collect (collecting cycles) and how to collect (individual techniques and vegetation dynamics).

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The commercialization of medicinal plants will provide a source of income which can enable the smallholder families to remain in the land with which they have created historical bonds.

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