About EPIC CRC

EPIC CRC aims to boost the competitiveness and productivity of Indigenous agribusinesses. It will do this by addressing:

• Technical challenges that limit the growth and scaling of agricultural and fisheries businesses that are producing novel foods and ingredients;

• Supply chain integration and system challenges that limit participation of Indigenous businesses within the agribusiness (including fisheries) sector; and

• Capability building to grow and develop innovative Aboriginal land and water busineses.

 

EPIC CRC, which is co-led by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from industry, government, community and academia, will:

• Generate benefits for Indigenous businesses from better protection of the knowledge and intellectual property (IP) Indigenous people hold.

• Address a national imbalance between Indigenous and nonIndigenous businesses and realise an industry opportunity, while achieving the powerful promise that reconciliation offers Australia.

• Enhance the competitiveness of export-focused businesses to differentiate themselves in the marketplace with manufactured high valued products using unique and innovative ingredients.

• Enhance and protect biodiversity through regeneration of land and water and more sustainable land and water management.

• Support the achievement of solutions to address nation-wide and global impacts identified in the Australia State of the Environment report 2021.

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In doing this, EPIC CRC will support the vision of Indigenous Business Australia, ‘To advance a nation in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are economically independent and an integral part of the economy'.