About 80% of the world's gum arabic is harvested in Sudan, where the acacia trees stretch from border to border. But the sap ...

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A farmer climbs on an Acacia tree to collect gum arabic in the western Sudanese town of El-Nahud that lies in the main farming state of North Kordofan December 18, 2012. Business is booming in the ...

Sudan produces around 80 percent of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilise and thicken ingredients in mass-market products ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilize and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used to mix, stabilise and thicken ingredients in mass-market products including ...

AL-DURUTA, Nov 25, 2011 (AFP) - Since he was 14, Al-Amin has tapped gum arabic, the resin of an acacia tree that thrives in Sudan's conflict states -- "manna" from heaven for some, a key ingredient in ...

Further, through a partnership with the NGO Tree Aid based on the volume of gum acacia sold by Alland & Robert, the foundation has funded the planting of more than 18,000 native trees in several ...

Westerners' consumption of a little-known tree gum – used in everything from Coca-Cola and Nestlé pet food to L'Oréal lipsticks and M&M sweets – could be funding both sides in Sudan's bitter ...

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