Latin American Plant Sciences Network: A Program for the Development of Plant Sciences and Conservation of Biodiversity in Latin America

Abstract

Several factors contribute to biodiversity loss: poverty, economic maginalization, undervaluing of natural resources, poor social participation in decision concerning development and resource utilization. scientific and other ignorance about resources, and where resources are present in each country, etc. Many of the factors stem, in part, from constraints and unequal access by different groups of people to educational opportunities. [...]