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UNDERUTILIZED PLANTS
Their Role in Preventive Medicine, Nutrition, and Sustainability

Public health professionals working in some of the most economically challenged
areas of the world are also in proximity to a large array of underutilized plants.  Traditional knowledge of their medicinal and nutritional uses is being lost at an
alarming rate. This loss is accompanied by disappearance of the plant species
themselves and of the ecosystems they support. This symposium will increase
awareness by highlighting some of these underutilized plant resources and their
benefits to local populations.We hope that health professionals, plant researchers and others will attend.

 
PROGRAM

Introduction                                                                     
ROBERT S. LAWRENCE, MD - Moderator
Director, Center for a Livable Future 
Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine, John Hopkins University    
Audio

Keynote Speaker                                                              
Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value:
The Last 30 Years
NOEL VIETMEYER, PhD
National Academy of Sciences
Author of "Underexploited Tropical Plants" and "Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains; Voulume II: Vegetables; Volume III: Fruits".
Audio 
 

APPLICATIONS, REGIONAL APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
Introduction by SIDNEY W. MINTZ, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University 
Audio                                                     

Development of Forest Resources for Food: Improving the
Standard of Living of Rural Africans                                                 
CORI HAM
Community Development Consultant for Commerial Products for the Wild (CPWild), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Spotlight on the Appalachian Center for
Ethnobotanical Studies (ACES)                                          
JENNIE HUNTER-CEVERA, PhD                                                
President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)
Audio
                                                                                    
TOPIC: Native American Foods:                                           
Lost Traditions - Found Opportunities
TRISTAN READER, Co-Director Tohono O'odham Community Action   
KAREN BLAINE, MSW, Nutrition, Health and Culture Outreach Coordinator (TOCA)
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for the National Research Council
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THE PLANTS | Introduction by JED W. FAHEY, ScD               
Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory, Pharmacology, JHU School of Medicine
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The Moringa Tree (Moringa oleifera):  
Consider the Possibilities                                                 
BALBIR S. MATHUR
President, Trees for Life, Wichita, KS   
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Perennial Vegetables: Finding Inexpensive, Highly Productive                
Nutrition Solutions for Poor Families in the Tropics              
MARTIN PRICE, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, Educational Concerns for Hunger