Production of Terminalia ferdinandiana Excell. (‘Kakadu plum’) in northern Australia

The commercialisation of Terminalia ferdinandiana presents an outstanding economic opportunity for vast areas of currently relatively economically unproductive and unpopulated tropical savannahs. This economic base could help support Indigenous people to maintain or retain connection with their traditional country, benefiting both people and the environment. This chapter seeks to outline the opportunity resulting from the exceptional properties of this species; provide a brief summary of the story of commercialisation thus far; explore some of the potential co-benefits that could be achieved in areas such as Indigenous health, employment and training and environmental management; outline some lessons learned from wild harvest and enrichment planting; and outline some of the challenges that need to be met.