Plants for Food and Medicine

Plants for Food and Medicine, the proceedings of the 1996 Economic Botany and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology Conference. Explores the commercial and scientific potential of plants for the food, health and drug industries. It focuses on the current state of ‘pharmafoods’ — how medicinal plants are shaping modern medicine; ethnopharmacology; new drug development; biodiversity and conservation; and the valuation of wild plant resources.