Medicinal plants, often harvested directly from the wild, are under increasing pressure from climate change, development and over-exploitation in response to increasing demand. Is cultivation the answer, or can a certification programme create incentives to achieve sustainable harvests?
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Kling, J. Protecting medicine's wild pharmacy. Nature Plants 2, 16064 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.64
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