Sixty Challenges - A 2030 Perspective on Natural Products and Medicines Security

摘要

Natural products matter, for they are essential contributors to societal well-being and global health. Flavors, fragrances, essential oils, traditional medicines and phytopharmaceuticals, and prescription and over-the-counter products all utilize constituent materials from natural sources. However, these vast natural resources of Earth are disappearing, and climate change and market expansion by a dramatically increasing and ageing population will continue to strain plant sourcing in the decades ahead. It was with these and other considerations that the term "ecopharmacognosy" was developed as both a philosophy and a practice, and from which the necessity for a "medicines security" strategy evolved.