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Native foods from custodial Queensland tribes will be used to promote and expand collaborations between commercial operations and Indigenous populations.
In a bid to support a demand for native food in the cuisine market, profits from commercial opportunities will go directly back to Indigenous communities.
The project, called
A Deadly Solution: Towards an Indigenous-led Bushfood Industry, is a $1.5 million collaboration between Indigenous Traditional Owners and Custodians and the University of Queensland.
Professor Melissa Fitzgerald, who specialises her research in bush food, said there was a huge market for native food.
“It’s growing exponentially. It’s currently worth about $100m and it is growing very quickly,” Professor Fitzgerald said.
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