Medicinal plants: An expanding role in development (WB, 1996, 32 p.): (introductory text...)

Medicinal plants: An expanding role in development (WB, 1996, 32 p.)

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		Foreword
		Abstract
		Acknowledgments
		Executive summary
		1. Introduction
		2. The resource base
		3. Medicinal plants in world bank projects
		4. Toward a strategy
		Appendix 1
		Bibliography
		Distributors of World Bank publications
		Recent world bank technical papers

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Jitendra Srivastava, John Lambert, and Noel Vietmeyer

The World Bank Washington, D.C.

Copyright © 1996
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ISSN: 0253-7494
ISBN: 0-213-3613-4

Jitendra P. Srivastava is Principal Agriculturalist in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Department of the World Bank. John Lambert is professor of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Noel Vietmeyer is Senior Program Officer, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council, Washington, D.C..

Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data

Srivastava, Jitendra, 1940
Medicinal plants: an expanding role in development /Jitendra
Srivastava, John Lambert, and Noel Vietmeyer. p. cm.—(World Bank technical paper; no. 320)

ISBN 0-8213-3613-4

1. Materia medica, Vegetable.
2. Medicinal plants-Government policy.
3. Social medicine.

I. Lambert, John, 1938- .
II. Vietmeyer, Noel, 1940- . m. Title. IV. Series.

RS164.S73 1996
615'.32—dc20
96-13421 CIP