Examples of people and organizations who may be involved in Medicinal Aromatic Plant supply chains.

 

• Individual or group cultivators, collectors, or processors. 

• Private or community owners of the MAP resources. 

• Community-based traders, who harvest and transport MAPs to market, or external traders from outside the community, who may establish new trading networks. In southern Africa, it is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of traders are women, some of whom are permanently located in street markets. 

• Community-owned enterprises, or cooperatives, which may act to negotiate quantities, qualities and prices of product sold to end consumers, or wholesalers, or specialist processors, private companies, etc. • Government departments, which may have a regulatory role in issuing and monitoring permits, providing grants, and promoting natural products, including MAPs. 

• NGOs which may play a role in information provision and technical and business support. 

• Consumers.