“With the loss of native cultures, there is also disappearing the vital and important knowledge of a way of living in balance with the earth.” Resource management, landscape knowledge and the rhetoric of medicinal plants are three examples Brosius uses to show the transformation of indigenous knowledge that occurs in environmentalist texts. According to Brosius, the Penan exploit crops in a process that maintains its long-term availability and use a molong system
namely documentation of medicinal plants and knowledge of their use, traditional forest-related knowledge and conservation of natural resources. These attributes were broadly based on the ecosystem services identified in line with local and international policies, including the National Policy on Biological Diversity and CBD. The indigenous knowledge and practices on medicinal plants are of particular interest because there are more than 2,000 species of medicinal plants in Malaysia of which, about
systems, cultural practices and other complex networks of variables account for actual behaviors. Every medical system is a cultural system and the knowledge on medical is available to all members of a cultural group, it is crucial to give cultural importance to the insiders perspective. People create meanings to their lives by
attributes, namely documentation of medicinal plants and knowledge of their use, traditional forest-related knowledge and conservation of natural forests. These attributes were broadly based on the ecosystem services identified in line with the CBD and Malaysia’s National Policy on Biological Diversity 1998. Indigenous knowledge and practices pertaining to medicinal plants are of particular relevance because there are more than 2,000 species of medicinal plants in Malaysia of which, about 200 species
States has seen a great deal of change in its physical nature; what was once the thirteen original colonies quickly expanded into one massive country with influence extending far beyond its geographical borders. Yet because the country covers so much land, many regional nuances and dialects are reflected in the works that come out from each section of the country. From accents, to food, to history and culture, no one place defines what America is as a country, but all combine to provide the sense
environment. The concept of 'Sustainable Development', which aims at striking a balance between preserving the environment and achieving economic progress, has emerged as the biggest challenge for mankind today. It was recognised as an issue of great importance in the last decades of the 20th century and continues to be so in the 21st century as world population burgeons and natural resources across
major international recognition in 1972 at the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm. The term was popularised 15 years later in Our Common Future, the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, which included what is deemed the 'classic' definition of sustainable development: "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". More recently, the World Summit on Sustainable Development
needs has put a lot of pressure on the plant genetic resources (PGR) and diversity particularly in agricultural sector in terms of addressing the accompanied challenges associated with increasing crop productivity. The utilization of PGR in agriculture has not only brought about profound changes in the crop productivity and quality, but has also opened up newer and unforeseen potential vistas including improvement of novel traits by domestication, manipulating plant architecture and molecular farming
Nutraceuticals refer to extracts of foods claimed to have medicinal effect on human health. Nutraceuticals are a large and diverse class of compounds, which occur naturally in plants. Although these compounds are considered non-nutritive, many of them possess antioxidant, antimutagenic, anti-oestrogenic, anti-carcinogenic and anti-inflammatory properties that might potentially be beneficial in preventing diseases and protecting the stability of the genome. The term ‘nutraceutical’ was coined from
Medicinal gold was a golden colored alloy they tried to make to serve the same purposes of gold. They really wanted to bring gold into their elixirs to create this immortally and hence, they thought production through a man made gold would help them achieve this. The second type of gold elixir was potable gold, which was basically drinkable gold. They thought if they had a drinkable elixir it would solve the issues that medicinal gold had because it was too strong