Presentation by Slade Lee on 21 July 2012 to Tropical Crops and Biocommodities at QUT, Brisbane.

1. 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

2. 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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3. 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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4. Plant Business Project: Project Map
Community Engagement
Plant Science
TK & IP Protection
Field Trials
Outcomes
improved
plant
varietiesmodels for
industry
development robust supply
chain &
marketing
Aboriginal IP
protection
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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

9. Plant Business Project: Project Map
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10. 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?

11. 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

12. Plant Business Project
Desert Garden Produce
Aboriginal Corporation