Volume and financial value of species traded in the medicinal plant markets of Gauteng, South Africa

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 584-603

  Williams, Vivienne L ^a   Witkowski, Ed T F ^a   Balkwill, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Market value; Medicinal plant trade; Price structures

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; ETHNOBOTANY; MARKET; MEDICINAL PLANT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; VALUATION;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 38549117876     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504500709469757     Document Type: Article

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