TY - CHAP A1 - Nautiyal, Sunil A1 - Smitha, K. C. A1 - Kächele, Harald ED - Roy, Niranjan ED - Roychoudhury, Shubhadeep ED - Nautiyal, Sunil ED - Agarwal, Sunil K. ED - Baksi, Sangeeta T1 - Medicinal Plant Biodiversity in India: Harnessing Opportunities for Promoting Livelihood and Food Security T2 - Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation - Strategies for Sustainability N2 - India’s rich biodiversity is distributed across its ecological regions. Traditional medicinal plants are recognised for their value and they constitute source of livelihood and food security for large Indian population. Cultivation of medicinal plants is also a source of income; thereby improve the standard of living for local communities and reduce poverty. Yet, today Indian medicinal habitat and ecosystem are going through tremendous pressure for meeting the requirement of various pharmaceutical and aroma-chemicals related industries. The objective of this paper is to synthesis the existing information on current status; explore the potential opportunities and constraints in medicinal plant cultivation in India. Based on the documentation of two cases i.e., Bhotiya tribe of Central Himalayan Region and Soliga tribe of Biligiri Ranga-swamy Temple Tiger Reserve (BRTTR), an attempt has been made to suggest a framework for harnessing medicinal plant cultivation for promoting food security in India. Finally, SWOT analysis of medicinal plants and food security in India has been presented. KW - Medicinal plants; Biodiversity; Bhotiya tribal community; Soliga tribal community; Food security Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-7306 SN - 978-3-030-32462-9 SP - 135 EP - 169 PB - Springer Nature ER -