Bridges between tradition and innovation in ethnomedicine :
[Book]
fostering local development through community-based enterprises in India /
Maria Costanza Torri, Thora Martina Herrmann
1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) :
illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The entrepreneurship and the role of indigenous communities -- Traditional ethnobiological knowledge and bioprospecting -- Gram Mooligai Limited Company (GMCL), an alternative bioprospecting and development model : constitution, structure and its functioning -- Ethnomedicine, capacity development, and innovation system through GMCL -- GMCL, the supply chain and the final market -- The impact of GMCL on indigenous communities
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Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a strategy for fostering sustainable local development while at the same time maintaining traditional knowledge in ethnomedicine and conserving the local ecosystems
Springer
978-94-007-1112-9
Bridges between tradition and innovation in ethnomedicine.
Bridges between tradition and innovation in ethnomedicine.