Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a strategy for fostering sustainable local development while at the same time maintaining traditional knowledge in ethnomedicine and conserving the local ecosystems.
Introduction.-
1. The Entrepreneurship and the Role of Local
Communities.-
2. Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge and Bioprospecting.-
3. The Gram Mooligai Limited Company (GMCL) An Alternative Bioprospecting
and Development Model: Constitution, Structure and Its Functioning.-
4.
Ethnomedicine, Capacity Development and Innovation System Through GMCL.-
5.
GMCL, The Supply Chain and The Final Market.- The Impact of GMCL On
Indigenous Communities.- The Impact of GMCL On Indigenous Communities.-
Conclusion.- Index.
