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Culture of Medicinal Plants in the city of Fortaleza as a proposal for the sustainable development of the municipality

Author

  • Khaldoon A. Mourad
  • J.W. Silveira Neto
  • F.A. Pinto
  • M.G. Santos

Summary, in English

Medicinal plants cultivation has grown all over the world. This paper studies the role of Medicinal plants cultivation in sustainable development. The research takes the city of Fortaleza in Brazil as a case study. The results show that the proposed Living Pharmacy Program, which has been implanting for more than 20 years since 1990 in the municipality of Fortaleza, is enlarging the access of the population to the medicinal plants and physiotherapeutic medications, awakening their ecological conscience and thus contributing to economic and sustainable development of the municipality.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

177-182

Publication/Series

International Journal of Life Science and Engineering

Volume

1

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Institute of Science, American Institute of Science

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Other Agricultural Sciences

Keywords

  • Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Developmenteza
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Living Pharmacy Program
  • FortalFortaleza

Status

Published