A closer look at Mongolia’s medical plant supply chain

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Medicinal plant (MP) supply chains have multiplied across Central Asia recently. Unemployed poor rural populations in Mongolia collect wild-growing plants and sell them at negotiated prices through trade networks to urban consumers in Mongolia or China.

The EU-funded PLANTECON project will investigate the sociocultural formation of prices along the Mongolian MP supply chains. The project will identify the breadth and extent of the proliferating MP trade of Fang Feng and Liquorice Root plants and the diverse sociocultural factors that impact price negotiations.

PLANTECON’s findings will provide fresh insights and advance economic anthropology on pricing and environmental medical anthropology.