Questionnaire:
Information provided by informants will be used for research purposes only
Informants’ consent for the participation in the study:
I..................................................... (name of informant) hereby give my full consent and conscious to participate in this study and declare that to the best of my knowledge the information that I have provided are true, accurate and complete.
Date........................................ (Signature/Thumb impression of Informant)
Informants’ details:
Name................................................................................................
Gender..............................................................................................
Age...................................................................................................
Occupation.........................................................................................
Education..........................................................................................
Location/Residence.............................................................................
Data about medicinal plant and its use:
Plant (Local name).............................................................................
Habit (Tree/ Herb/ Shrub/Climber/…...)
Plant part used...................................................................................
Cultivated/ Wild................................................................................
If cultivated, cultivated for……………………………….....................
If wild, availability in natural resources (easy/ difficulty/ very difficult)
Conservation needs ...........................................................................
Conservation efforts made by Government and local residents………..
Conservation needs ...........................................................................
Conservation efforts made by Government and local residents………..
Method of collection and storage……………………….......................
Name of disease(s) treated……………………………........................
Method of crude drug preparation........................................................
Mode of administration.......................................................................
Dosage .................................................................. .........................
Other uses (if any)…………………………......……...........................
Remarks:
Plant identified as ………………………………………… (Botanical name and family)
Information provided by informants will be used for research purposes only
Signature of Researcher
Can you also upload an undertaking given by the researcher to the knowledge provider? As such,this consent is one-sided and exploiting. it is ridiculous that the person whose knowledge is acquired by the researcher has to provide an undertaking, while the researcher doesnt provide any.
ReplyDeleteThe important point made here by Franco is valid. Biopiracy and corporate exploitation of traditional knowledge systems is harmful - ethnobotanists focus more on their own "needs" than those of others - particularly those people they work with - I have spoken in depth with a pharmacologist - who aided by ethnobotanical literature was collecting plants for anti-cancer research - he was in the process of a million dollar deal for a medicine development - but when I proposed he set up a scholarship or fund for native youth in the area to go to universities and study - he scoffed at the idea and excused his behavior with a "there is no such thing as a real living native/tribe any more - they drive trucks and live in houses like the rest of us...." What he did not see was the way he could help heal years and generations of broken treaties - those same medicinal plants are still today collected by tribal member who have to deal with government agencies who do not respect traditional resource use/medicinal herb gathering areas. Exploiters fail to see a broader perspective, the "other" perspective - and this pervasive attitude treats plants, ecosystems, peoples, and information like commodities rather than important elements of an interconnected living planet.
ReplyDeleteIt is very good for obtaining information
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