We believe that fair and responsible practices benefit the plants, the environment, and the people who work with them.

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The ESC facilitates dialogue between everyone involved in traditional plants to find consensus on principles and practices, and how to implement them.

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After 15 months of dialogue, the ESC is pleased to present our first major publication: the Ayahuasca Dialogues Report.

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Are you involved in cultivation, wild collection, or other use of traditional plants? Get involved so we can grow together!

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The Ethnobotanical Stewardship Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building consensus about responsible traditional plant use through dialogue.

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Project: Ayahuasca Dialogues

Ayahuasca Dialogues

The “Ayahuasca Dialogues” will develop consensus around sustainability and safety norms for growing and working with Ayahuasca, and do so in a transparent manner by working to engage all relevant stakeholder groups in the Ayahuasca value chain from growers to healers, from vendors to site operators, from policy makers to subject experts.

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The ESC’s development depends on community support.

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Due to sustained opposition from a small but significant portion of stakeholders, we have dissolved the Ethnobotanical Stewardship Council.

We are grateful for your support in increasing dialogue, learning with one another, and raising awareness about safer, more sustainable, and more reciprocal traditional plant use practices.

For a summary of our work, please see our 2014 financial report or our Dialogues Report.

If you are interested in learning more about ethnobotanicals, please visit ICEERS.