The Wild Dozen Plant Ingredients: A FairWild Week Webinar

Описание: An excerpt from the webinar "Wild Plants are Our Business." This webinar was co-organized by TRAFFIC, the FairWild Foundation, and the American Botanical Council’s Sustainable Herbs Program to kick off FairWild Week 2021 with a practical discussion on why wild plants are everyone’s business. From shea butter to liquorice, the speakers discuss specific examples of responsible sourcing challenges and opportunities, emphasizing how important wild plants are to our everyday lives and why responsible sourcing needs to occur.

To see the complete webinar, go to:    • FairWild Week Webinar: Wild Plants are Our...  .

Speakers include:
Erin Smith, MSc, CCH, formerly director of Herbal Science & Research at Banyan Botanicals, and Board Member and Co-Chair of the Sustainability Committee for the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA)
Susan Curtis, Director and Brand Ambassador at Neal’s Yard Remedies
Andrea Rommeler, Sustainable Wild Collection Manager at Martin Bauer
Marin Anastasov, Head of Procurement at Pukka Herbs
Giulia Muir, Non-Wood Forest Product Specialist at FAO

The session provides practical advice to businesses trading in wild plant ingredients, with an opportunity for Q&A with the speakers, as well as increasing consumer awareness of these prolific yet hidden ingredients by sharing stories around the origins of specific ingredients.

The Sustainable Herbs Program (SHP) was a former educational program of the nonprofit American Botanical Council from 2018-2024. SHP is now independently operating as the Sustainable Herbs Initiative (SHI), a collaborative initiative focused on promoting ethical and sustainable sourcing of medicinal and aromatic plants within the herbal products industry. Under a licensing agreement, both ABC and SHI have distribution rights to all SHP videos, including those produced prior to SHP’s becoming part of ABC. For more information on SHI, please visit https://sustainableherbsinitiative.org.

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