Ethnobotany documents our tribal communities' plant wisdom, bhai, but as a policy maker drafting Access and Benefit Sharing laws, I see consent as formal Prior Informed Consent agreements, not just verbal blessings. We categorize uses through structured codes in databases, but field notes? Those raw, personal stories get flattened into "data points" for calculating benefit shares. My own life tells me this—I tally EMI spreadsheets while my sister handles our parents' real care; the spreadsheet never captures the chai and worry at 2 AM. So our laws risk reducing living knowledge to just another ledger entry.
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