SHP and ABC are hosting a series of online conversations on key issues around sustainability and the botanical industry with leaders in the botanical community. After the first webinar, these will typically be scheduled on the first and third Thursday of each month at 2 pm. We have selected this time as a way to provide a virtual brown bag lunch series.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
The development of of Crofelemer: Connecting ethnobotany, conservation, biocultural diversity, indigenous knowledge and global public health.
In this webinar, ethnobotanist, Steven King, PhD will discuss his work creating a sustainable harvesting program for Croton lechleri (Euphorbiaceae), 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 to conserve biological diversity, recognize intellectual property rights, and meet global human health care needs.
Dr. Steven R. King is an ethnobotanist who has conducted field research on the use of plants for food and medicine in the highland and lowland regions of South America, Africa and parts of Southeast Asia over the past 42 years. Dr. King holds a PhD in biology with a focus on ethnobotany and economic botany. He is currently chief of sustainable supply, ethnobotanical research and IP at Jaguar Health. He and his colleagues in several Andean countries have created a long term sustainable harvesting program of Croton lechleri, (the source of crofelemer) in collaboration with local and indigenous communities and regional scientists.
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 2-3 pm EDT
Register here.
Herbal tea sourcing with respect (with UEBT The Union for Ethical BioTrade)
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. Speakers to be announced.
February 18, 10:00 – 11:00 am EST (Note time).
Registration coming soon
Farmer’s Voices 1: Regenerative Practices on Corporate-Owned Farms
March 18, 2-3 pm EST (more information and registration coming soon)
Farmer’s Voices 2: Regenerative Practices on Family-Owned Farms
More information coming soon.
WEBINAR RECORDINGS
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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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