This study shows the efforts being made to find drug from plant sources based on ethnomedicine.

Study suggests that instead of macro, the micro level of planning of research and conservation strategy would be required for sustaining the biodiversity and related socio-ecological systems.

The ethnobotanical study revealed use of 9 plant species belonging to different families to cure cuts and wounds.

The paper includes the traditional knowledge of medicine, which is prevalent in the area and also aims to provide information on the concepts like health and disease.

The contribution of indigenous and local communities to sustainable development is not limited to their role as natural resource managers. Local knowledge is increasingly being used to produce marketable commodities and as the basis for eco and cultural tourism. These communities have realized that their unique biological and cultural diversity is a marketable product in the modern world, and a sound basis for community entrepreneurialism.

In this study, phytochemical and medicinal importance of few parts of certain plants are reported.

The paper is based on an empirical investigation, describes the relevance of indigenous medicine and healthcare practices prevalent among the Bhotia tribe in Indian Central Himalaya, in terms of their contribution to physical well being of this tribal people.

This paper examined the motives of consumers in buying local traditional food from rural women’s cooperatives and their perceptions for “specific quality” of women’s foods with connotations of ‘a homemade’ and so traditional, pure and healthy foodstuff. It also explore to what extent visitors to women’s co‐operatives are influenced in their shopping by the fact that products are prepared by women.

The paper aims to investigate factors responsible for the resilience and long term survival of short, local food supply networks formed in mountain areas characterised by low population density, remote location and underdeveloped infrastructure.

This ethno-medico-botanical studies have been carried out in different tribal pockets of Raigarh district of Chhatisgharh State.