Research Publications

General Publications

• Native Foods R&D Priorities and Strategies 2007-2012 (pdf file) (RIRDC publication 08/02)
• Cultivation and Harvest Quality of Native Food Crops, Maarten Ryder, Yvonne Latham and Bruce Hawke (pdf file) (RIRDC publication 08/019)
• Food Safety Standards and Labelling for Native Plant Foods, John Faragher, Michelle Parsons and Robert Premier (pdf file) (RIRDC publication 08/20)
• Riberry Production (pdf 778 Kb) By Russell Glover.
• The effect of post harvest handling on selected native food plants (pdf) (RIRDC publication 06/021, Project No. DAQ-295A)
  By KJ Mcdonald, NA Caffin, S Sommano and R Cocksedge
• “Desert Delicious – Indigenous Australian Foods for the Global Palate” by Julian Cribb, Yvonne Latham and Maarten Ryder. Terrain.org A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Issue 16, Apring/Summer 2005
• Tastes of Australia : a directory of the native food industry1 st edition 2005
  Published by Tanamera Bush Foods
  Email: tanamerabf@optus.com.au
  Phone / Fax: + 61 (0)8 83830374
  Hunt Rd McLaren Flat SA 5171
• Cultivation of Native Food Plants in Southeastern Australia (pdf) (RIRDC publication 04/178, Project No. CSL-11A)
  By Maarten Ryder and Yvonne Latham

General publications on native foods

Three RIRDC-funded reports provide some basic background information and future recommendations on the native foods industry:

• The New Crop Industries Handbook (RIRDC publication 04/125 )
• Prospects for the Australian Native Bushfood Industry (Word, 466 Kb)
  by Caroline Graham & Denise Hart, 1997.
  An early study of the Industry. Although it’s data and analyses are now somewhat dated, it is still a useful introduction to the Industry.
• Improving Access to Bushfood Production & Marketing Information (pdf, 269 Kb)
  by Atech Group and Total Earth Care, 1999.
  A detailed analysis of the Industry’s information access needs.
• Marketing the Australian Native Food Industry (pdf, 219 Kb)
  by Vic Cherikoff, 2000.
  Positioning and strategy issues for Native Food
• RIRDC Native Food Fact Sheets

Other RIRDC publications

• The effect of post harvest handling on selected native food plants (pdf) (RIRDC publication 06/021, Project No. DAQ-295A)
  By KJ Mcdonald, NA Caffin, S Sommano and R Cocksedge
• DOOR For Quandong Production – A feasibility study (pdf, 161 Kb) (RIRDC publication W04/111 AQI-2A). By Ben Lethbridge
• Soil biological constraints and benefits to quandong and other native food production (pdf, 94 Kb) (RIRDC publication 03/138 CSL-20A). By Rosemary Warren and Maarten Ryder
• Muntries – The domestication and improvement of Kunzea pomifera (pdf, 882 Kb) (F.Muell.) (RIRDC publication 03/127 UM-52A). By Tony Page
• Cultivation and sustainable wild harvest of Bushfoods by Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (pdf, 1.3 Mb) (RIRDC publication W03/124 CLC-1A) By Geoff Miers
• Genetic and agronomic improvement of quandong (pdf, 158 Kb) (RIRDC publication 03/110 AQI-1A). By Ben Lethbridge and Barbara Randell
• Researchers’ Extension Program for the Native Foods Industry (pdf, 56 Kb) (RIRDC publication 03/013 and ANS-2A). By A. E. Hele
• Innovative Products from Australian Native Foods (pdf) (RIRDC publication 02/109 CFO-1A). by M. Forbes-Smith and J. E. Paton
• Integrated Pest Management of Quandong Moth (pdf, 148 Kb)
• Food Safety of Australian Plant Bushfoods (pdf, 562 Kb)
• Food safety of three species of Native Mint (pdf, 99 Kb)
• Feasibility of a sustainable Bushfood industry in Western Qld (Word, 749 Kb)
• Tasmannia lanceolata. Developing a New Commercial Flavour Product (pdf, 434 Kb)
• Wattle Seed Production in Low Rainfall Areas (pdf, 207 Kb)