We have completed the ABC-SHP Webinars for the year. Please find the recordings to all of the ABC-SHP Webinars below. The June 21 Webinar co-hosted with our FairWild Week partners will be the last webinar we will co-host for the year. Please let us know what topics you might like to hear in the future! Thanks so much for joining in and thank you again to SHP Underwriters whose generous support made these webinars possible.
UPCOMING JOINT WEBINARS
FairWild Week Kickoff Webinar: Wild Plants are Our Business.
Join the webinar co-organized by TRAFFIC, the FairWild Foundation, and the American Botanical Council’s Sustainable Herbs Program to kick off FairWild Week 2021 with a practical discussion on why wild plants are everyone’s business. From shea butter to liquorice, we’ll discuss specific examples of responsible sourcing challenges and opportunities, emphasizing how important wild plants are to our everyday lives and why responsible sourcing needs to occur.
Speakers include:
Erin Smith, Director of Herbal Science & Research at Banyan Botanicals, and Board Member and Co-Chair of the Sustainability Committee for the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA)
Susan Curtis, Director and Brand Ambassador at Neal’s Yard Remedies
Andrea Rommeler, Sustainable Wild Collection Manager at Martin Bauer
Giulia Muir, Non-Wood Forest Product Specialist at FA
Marin Anastasov, Head of Procurement, Pukka Herbs
The session will provide practical advice to businesses trading in wild plant ingredients, with an opportunity for Q&A with the speakers, as well as increasing consumer awareness of these prolific yet hidden ingredients by sharing stories around the origins of specific ingredients.
Monday, June 21, 10 am EDT/3 pm BST Register here.
WEBINAR RECORDINGS
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This webinar discusses what it takes to create and maintain mutually beneficial long term trade relations among those wild-harvesting plants for the global supply network, including equitable sharing of the costs of sustainable production.
In this webinar SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht, speak with four farms growing medicinal plants in different regions of the US (North Carolina, Vermont, Oregon, and Hawaii) about their vision for farming, some specific practices they follow, and the unique challenges they face. We talk about what is needed to shift towards a more equitable system, create more resilient models and what the responsibilities are of botanical companies and buyers of herbal products.
In this webinar, SHP Director Ann Armbrecht speaks with the managers of three certified organic farms leading the way in practicing methods that care for the health of the soil and biodiversity as a whole.
In this webinar, SHP Director Ann Armbrecht speaks with the managers of three certified organic farms leading the way in practicing methods that care for the health of the soil and biodiversity as a whole.
Jan Salick, PhD, and Robbie Hart, PhD, talk about their research on the impacts of climate change on alpine plants in the Himalayas. The Arctic is the only place that is warming faster than the Himalayas. We will talk about how this warming affects plant elevational ranges and phenology and how those changes have the potential to disrupt plant populations, ecological interactions like pollination, and rural livelihoods, including harvesting medicinal plants.
Sourcing botanicals for herbal teas is a complicated process. Most herbal teas are a blend of different ingredients, typically from small-scale producers, including as many as 300 different ingredients in herbal teas, originating in more than 100 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Challenges to sourcing include threats to biodiversity, overuse of pesticides, minimal quality control, and over-harvesting of wild botanical species. This webinar will discuss some of the challenges in sourcing herbal tea ingredients with respect to social equity and biodiversity, with particular attention to how to improve conditions on small farms.
In this webinar, ethnobotanist, Steven King, PhD will discuss his work creating a sustainable harvesting program for Croton lechleri, (the source of Crofelemer) for use in Crofelemer, the first oral botanical drug approved by the US FDA. King in particular will talk about his work with international partners and indigenous and local communities on conserving biological diversity, recognizing intellectual property rights, and and meeting global human health care needs.
In this webinar, SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht speak with Puspa Ghimire, from ANSAB, Nepal; Tarun Prajapati from Cultivator Natural Products, India; and Paulo Barriga from Pebani, Peru about the challenges of the past year in producing and supplying high quality, sustainable, and fairly traded botanicals to the global market.
NOTE: The recording freezes for a minute or two at the beginning, but continues after that pause. Drawing on stories from almost forty years traveling the world as an anthropologist and ethnobotanist, Wade Davis talks about the importance of culture in understanding ethnobotany. He speaks about the links between cultural and biological diversity and what is at stake for us all with the erosion of this diversity.
In this conversation ethnobotanists Nancy Turner and Leigh Joseph (Squamish First Nation) will discuss the role of values in Indigenous knowledge systems and how these values guide cultural interrelationships with medicinal plants.
Thomas Leonard of Gaia Herbs, Matt Dybala of Herb Pharm, and Bethany Davis of MegaFood, showcase three models of how companies are approaching and implementing regenerative agricultural practices.
In this conversation, Tal Johnson, CEO of Herb Pharm, and Sebastian Pole, co-founder of Pukka Herbs, discuss the responsibilities and challenges of leading a mission-driven company.
In this webinar, SHP Director Ann Armbrecht speaks with Brian Zapp, Creative Director at Applied Food Sciences, and Andrea Zangara, Scientific Marketing Manager at Euromed, about why investing in sustainability is essential to sourcing high quality botanicals.
Loren Israelsen, President, United Natural Products Alliance; Angela McElwee, President and CEO of Gaia Herbs; and Ajay Patel, Founder and CEO of Verdure Sciences discuss the challenges the botanical industry is facing during COVID.
Tieraona Low Dog speaks with SHP Director Ann Armbrecht about what young people can do to care for themselves and their communities, physically and emotionally, during this time.
Ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin talks about his groundbreaking work with the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) working with indigenous colleagues to protect nature and culture in the Amazon.
Ethnobotanist Claudia Ford discusses her research into the uses of cotton and black haw on plantations in the American South during the 1800s and the implications of this research for our current use and understanding of medicinal plants.
Ethnobotanists Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox speak about their their fieldwork in remote villages around the world and discuss the ways our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants.
Saw Palmetto: A Conversation on Sustainability, Quality, and Authentication with ABC Board Member Steven Foster, ABC’s Chief Science Officer Stefan Gafner, Umasudhan Pal., CEO at Valensa International, and Edward Fletcher, President & COO at Native Botanicals, Inc.
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