Editorial – Proceedings of the XXXVI GIRI meeting

Resumo (EN)

The 36th Edition of GIRI was carried out under the theme: “GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE: HOMEOPATHY AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL HEALTH” and provided a single opportunity for the participants to exchange scientific experiences, discuss new and standard research protocols, make new friendships, and gather the most important researchers involved with basic and/or clinical homeopathic research worldwide. The multidisciplinary feature of the GIRI meetings fits the concept of global health, since homeopathy favors the interconnection among people, animals, plants, and their environment, promoting its sustainable use in agriculture. The meeting aimed to examine the growing body of evidence around homeopathy and consider its role in addressing many urgent concerns, such as infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, aging populations, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, sustainability, and environmental factors, with special focus on the emerging evidence that homeopathic products may help mitigate the impact of climate change on agriculture – making plants and animals more bio-resilient – while also reducing the need for agricultural chemicals known to cause environmental harm.