Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Abstract

The Italian Plan 2013-2016 to Develop the Officinal Plants Sector

Cinzia Barbieri

The aim of this note is to inform, but to ‘not strictly insiders’, the interventions that will be planned in Italy to develop and support officinal plants sector (Plan of the sector of Officinal Plants 2013 - 2016). This note is structured as follows: the introduction outlines the context within which it developed the plan for the sector, while the following paragraphs are, respectively, dedicated to the description of the officinal plants sector and analysis and commentary of the Italian Plan. The synthesis of the findings from the analysis of the Plan is in the Conclusion. This first analysis will follow the study of interventions aimed at the development of MAPs in other European countries.