Indigenous communities in Australia are leading the development of a new app that will allow consumers to verify the authenticity of native foods. The app will provide information about the nutritional value, therapeutic value, and quality of the products, as well as details about their harvesting, storage, and distribution.
Just like Indigenous art, for a long time, those benefiting from the sale of bush foods were not always Indigenous people.
Director of the University of Queensland's Australian Research Council Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods, Yasmina Sultanbawa, said a new app using"Indigenous people know the nutritional value. They know the therapeutic value of these products," Professor Sultanbawa said. "It empowers the communities to actually be in the front seat when they negotiate prices, and it also gives the comfort to buyers because you have that transparent evidence to show the authenticity and the provenance of the product," she said.
"We need to, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, rather than wait to be invited, we need to be part of leading a change in this particular industry." "It enables the user to see 'Oh okay, Kakadu plum. It only comes with comes from these areas. This is where it originates. These are the original horticulturalists and users of this product.'"
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