Table 1.

Definition of participants within the herbal market trade scheme. Types of collectors and their role within the trade as defined by the Madagascar government

Operators	Persons who legally hold a license or an operating agreement to operate and collect medicinal plants and forest products to sell or use as raw materials.
Collectors	These are individuals who collect plants from those who harvest in the forest. They are authorized to carry out the grouping of plants with several collectors.
Harvesters	These are the persons authorized to conduct harvesting or gathering medicinal plants for commercial purposes
Rural harvesters	Those who come from the rural areas surrounding the city of Antananarivo to deliver medicinal species to the market sellers
Urban harvesters	people living in the vicinity of the capital, which also make deliveries to vendors of medicinal plants in the traditional market of Antananarivo
Public resellers (vendors)	These are the people who sell plants to the public. Called "tapa-mpivarotra kazo" or "mpivarotra raokandro” in Malagasy.