Prospects for Commercialisation of an Alaska Native Wild Resource as a Commodity Crop

摘要: The emerging research evidence regarding functional food health benefits, coupled with the modern rise in degenerative and lifestyle-related conditions, has created a growing market United States: super-fruit. Wild berries, which contain bioactive phytochemicals demonstrated efficacy against metabolic syndrome, have fulfilled important nutritional, medicinal, social roles Native American/Alaska lifestyles for generations. In this article, SWOT analysis was used to explore opportunities obstacles native development of wild Alaskan berries as commercial product. On one hand, novelty, appeal abundance these phytochemically enriched suggest an entrepreneurial prospect communities. other historical traditions typically dictate community ownership indigenous natural inclination protect common resources is prevalent most factors that influence complex juxta...