We are thrilled to be hosting another series of webinars. This year the themes of ethnobotany and sustainability of the botanical industry weave through each of the webinars. We hope you enjoy them!
Thank you again to SHP Underwriters whose generous support made these webinars possible.
Partnerships in Sourcing Australian Sandalwood: A Conversation with Clinton Farmer, current Chairman of Kutkabbuba Aboriginal Corporation and Keith Drage, Managing Director of WA Sandalwood Plantations
“Dutjahn is more than a sacred plant to the Martu and Wongi Nations, it is part of our soul and a key link to our spiritual identity.”
— Darren Farmer, Chairman of Dutjahn Custodians, Owner – Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils
Jan. 6, 7 am, ET; 8 pm Perth, Australia. NOTE time. The webinar will be live at this time to accommodate the time difference between the US and Australia. We will share the recording with registered participants.
This webinar will discuss the unique partnership that led to the creation of Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils, a Western Australian based sandalwood oil distillation company backed by Dutkahn Custodians, Kutubbubba Aboriginal Corporation, and the founders of WA Sandalwood Plantations (WASP) in Australia. Dutjahn, the Aboriginal word for ‘Sandalwood’ in the Martu and Wongi language, is 50% Indigenous-owned and makes essential oils by fusing Indigenous harvested wild wood from native title lands with sustainably managed plantation wood. Winner of a UN Equator Prize and two-time Australian Exporter Award winning company, Dutjahn supplies many of the world’s largest fragrance companies.
Farmer and Drage will discuss the importance of the sandalwood tree and harvesting for the Australian Aboriginal communities and, in particular, the cultural practices of custodianship that Clinton learned from his father, Ken Farmer, that is at the heart of Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils. We will talk about the evolution of the partnership with WASP and how partners ensure that the relationship is equitable and fair for all parties, particularly the Aboriginal communities who are often excluded or exploited in international trade partnerships. Finally, we will talk about the Western Australian sandalwood industry as a whole, the threats to that industry, and what must be done to ensure a sustainable supply.
Clinton Farmer, Director, Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils
Clinton is a self-employed sandalwood harvester and he manages and operates the Kutkububba Aboriginal Corporation’s Indigenous Martu harvesting enterprise. Caring for Country and following in his father’s footsteps is a cultural and commercial obligation to the Martu people. He is also a Director of Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils. He has never worked for anyone in his whole life, because he is a self-employed sandalwood harvester. His father (first contact – deceased) taught him to care for country with socio-economic and environmental principles.
Keith Drage, Managing Director, WA Sandalwood Plantations (WASP)
Keith immigrated to Australia in late 2000 and shortly after, together with Ron Mulder, founded WA Sandalwood Plantations (WASP). Keith has been involved with the development and management of every commercial Australian sandalwood plantation developed by WASP. Keith oversees WASP’s commercial management including investor relations, finance and sales. In addition, Keith has focused on the marketing, distribution and sales of sustainable plantation sandalwood products into India, China and Taiwan. Keith graduated in Chemistry from University College, London in 1986.
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Traditional Herbal Knowledge: A Conversation with Ruyu Yao
Jan. 20, Time to be Announced
Registration coming soon.
WEBINAR RECORDINGS
Below are upcoming webinars as well as recordings of all previous webinars. If you prefer to listen by audio, we also have created a podcast and will be uploading all of these recordings there as well. Please note that do to a technical difficulty the webinar with Cassandra Quaves ends abruptly. Our apologies!
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Loren Israelsen, President, United Natural Products Alliance; Angela McElwee, President and CEO of Gaia Herbs; and Ajay Patel, Founder and CEO of Verdure Sciences discuss the challenges the botanical industry is facing during COVID.
In this webinar, SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht speak with Puspa Ghimire, from ANSAB, Nepal; Tarun Prajapati from Cultivator Natural Products, India; and Paulo Barriga from Pebani, Peru about the challenges of the past year in producing and supplying high quality, sustainable, and fairly traded botanicals to the global market.
Please note, because of a technical difficulty, this recording ends rather abruptly. Our apologies!
SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht, speaks with medical ethnobotanist Dr Cassandra Quave who’s book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines, has just been published by Viking Press.
In this conversation ethnobotanists Nancy Turner and Leigh Joseph (Squamish First Nation) will discuss the role of values in Indigenous knowledge systems and how these values guide cultural interrelationships with medicinal plants.
Saw Palmetto: A Conversation on Sustainability, Quality, and Authentication with ABC Board Member Steven Foster, ABC’s Chief Science Officer Stefan Gafner, Umasudhan Pal., CEO at Valensa International, and Edward Fletcher, President & COO at Native Botanicals, Inc.
In this webinar SHP Director, Ann Armbrecht, speak with four farms growing medicinal plants in different regions of the US (North Carolina, Vermont, Oregon, and Hawaii) about their vision for farming, some specific practices they follow, and the unique challenges they face. We talk about what is needed to shift towards a more equitable system, create more resilient models and what the responsibilities are of botanical companies and buyers of herbal products.
Sourcing botanicals for herbal teas is a complicated process. Most herbal teas are a blend of different ingredients, typically from small-scale producers, including as many as 300 different ingredients in herbal teas, originating in more than 100 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Challenges to sourcing include threats to biodiversity, overuse of pesticides, minimal quality control, and over-harvesting of wild botanical species. This webinar will discuss some of the challenges in sourcing herbal tea ingredients with respect to social equity and biodiversity, with particular attention to how to improve conditions on small farms.
Tieraona Low Dog speaks with SHP Director Ann Armbrecht about what young people can do to care for themselves and their communities, physically and emotionally, during this time.
Ethnobotanist Claudia Ford discusses her research into the uses of cotton and black haw on plantations in the American South during the 1800s and the implications of this research for our current use and understanding of medicinal plants.
Ethnobotanists Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox speak about their their fieldwork in remote villages around the world and discuss the ways our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants.
Jan Salick, PhD, and Robbie Hart, PhD, talk about their research on the impacts of climate change on alpine plants in the Himalayas. The Arctic is the only place that is warming faster than the Himalayas. We will talk about how this warming affects plant elevational ranges and phenology and how those changes have the potential to disrupt plant populations, ecological interactions like pollination, and rural livelihoods, including harvesting medicinal plants.
Ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin talks about his groundbreaking work with the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) working with indigenous colleagues to protect nature and culture in the Amazon.
In this webinar, SHP Director Ann Armbrecht speaks with the managers of three certified organic farms leading the way in practicing methods that care for the health of the soil and biodiversity as a whole.
In this webinar, ethnobotanist, Steven King, PhD will discuss his work creating a sustainable harvesting program for Croton lechleri, (the source of Crofelemer) for use in Crofelemer, the first oral botanical drug approved by the US FDA. King in particular will talk about his work with international partners and indigenous and local communities on conserving biological diversity, recognizing intellectual property rights, and and meeting global human health care needs.
This webinar discusses what it takes to create and maintain mutually beneficial long term trade relations among those wild-harvesting plants for the global supply network, including equitable sharing of the costs of sustainable production.
This webinar was co-organized by TRAFFIC, the FairWild Foundation, and the American Botanical Council’s Sustainable Herbs Program to kick off FairWild Week 2021 with a practical discussion on why wild plants are everyone’s business.
In this webinar, SHP Director Ann Armbrecht speaks with Brian Zapp, Creative Director at Applied Food Sciences, and Andrea Zangara, Scientific Marketing Manager at Euromed, about why investing in sustainability is essential to sourcing high quality botanicals.
In this conversation, Tal Johnson, CEO of Herb Pharm, and Sebastian Pole, co-founder of Pukka Herbs, discuss the responsibilities and challenges of leading a mission-driven company.
Thomas Leonard of Gaia Herbs, Matt Dybala of Herb Pharm, and Bethany Davis of MegaFood, showcase three models of how companies are approaching and implementing regenerative agricultural practices.
NOTE: The recording freezes for a minute or two at the beginning, but continues after that pause. Drawing on stories from almost forty years traveling the world as an anthropologist and ethnobotanist, Wade Davis talks about the importance of culture in understanding ethnobotany. He speaks about the links between cultural and biological diversity and what is at stake for us all with the erosion of this diversity.
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