Slade LEE

Developing horticultural business opportunities in remote Australia from traditionally-used native plants

Protecting associated Aboriginal Intellectual Property to provide benefit sharing

Use Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale) to develop a model for future prospects

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Plant Business Project

Plant Business Project: Activities Plant Business comprises these Activities:

• Aboriginal Community engagement

• Aboriginal custodian approval

• Sourcing plant material from traditional lands

• Gathering plant-related environmental & cultural information

• Genetic analysis

• Phytochemical analysis

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Plant Business Project: Activities Plant Business comprises these Activities:

• Developing toxicity diagnostic

• Varietal selection trials & phenotyping

• Plant breeding pilot study

• IP protection strategy

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Plant Business Project: Project Map

Community Engagement

Plant Science

TK & IP Protection

Field Trials

Outcomes

improved plant

varieties models for industry

development robust supply chain &

marketing

Aboriginal IP protection

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Plant Business Project: Project Map

Aboriginal communities

CleanGROW

Robins Foods

Community Engagement

Aboriginal communities

RemoteBiz

Aboriginal custodian approval

community engagement

sourcing plant material

plant info, environment,

& stories

Community Engagement

Plant Science

TK & IP Protection

Field Trials

Outcomes

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Plant Business Project: Project Map

Plant Science

Southern Cross Univ.

genetic analysis

developing toxicity

diagnostic

phytochemical analysis

Community Engagement

Plant Science

TK & IP Protection

Field Trials

Outcomes

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Plant Business Project: Project Map

AZRI

Southern Cross Univ.

Field Trials

plant breeding

DUS field trial

varietal selection & field trial

Community Engagement

Plant Science

TK & IP Protection

Field Trials

Outcomes

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Plant Business Project: Project Map

Community Engagement

Plant Science

TK & IP Protection

Field Trials

Outcomes

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Southern Cross Univ.

Univ. New England

TK & IP Protection

new plant varieties

ethical strategies

legal strategies

PhD student project

PhD student project

Plant Business Project: Project Map

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Plant Business Project: Objective

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develop • horticultural varieties for creating • commercialisation opportunities in remote Australia with • native plants traditionally-used by Aboriginal people assess and exploit ways of • protecting Aboriginal Intellectual Property via instruments of • IP law and other legal provisions national and international, and by • ethical marketing approaches?

Plant Business Project: Outcome

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• protection strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander IP

• expansion of remote enterprises using horticultural varieties of Bush Tomato

• model for development of other bush plant enterprises

• employment opportunities and financial independence in remote Australia

• economic and cultural value of Traditional Knowledge recognised

Plant Business Project

Desert Garden Produce Aboriginal Corporation