Who Owns the Knowledge? Medicinal Plants from South Africa

Credits
Year: 2021
Running Time: 30 min
Production: NZZ Format
Broadcast: SRF 1 / 3 SAT
Director : Cristina Karrer, Patricia Wagner
Camera: Patricia Wagner, Cristina Karrer
Editor: Patricia Wagner
Producer: NZZ Format, Markus Stein

A NZZ Format programme about age-old knowledge of the almost-forgotten healing powers of medicinal plants and the question of who should be allowed to make a profit from it. Many of the drugs that are available in the West originated from native plants in Africa or Asia. In South Africa it was mainly the Khoisan people who, over thousands of years, amassed extensive knowledge of plants. But who does this knowledge belong to? And how must they be compensated? Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, traditional medicinal plants have once again attracted the attention of the scientific community.

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