The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

Amid battles and food insecurity across Sudan, many people are turning to weeds and wild plants to sustain them. They boil ...

According to agricultural engineer Rehab Al-Zaki, the Acacia tortilis tree is one of the most widespread and important tree species in Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa. It plays a vital role in ...

Gum arabic, an organic emulsifier derived from the sap of acacia trees, is a major ingredient in a range of products, including big soft drink brands as well as soap, medicine, sweets and cosmetics.

It grows across Africa—from Senegal to Kenya—but the millions of acacia trees that grow in a sandy 200,000 square mile belt across southern Sudan that is largely controlled by the RSF is the ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Credit: CIFOR-ICRAF Lire en français Thousands of seeds from native African tree species and indigenous varieties of crops have been deposited in the cold, dry rock ...

A Sudanese man holds a "sunki", a long wooden handled tool with a sharp metal edge, as he walks among acacia trees in the state-owned Demokaya research forest in January 2023 (AFP/Ashraf Shazly) ...

About 80% of the world's gum arabic is harvested in Sudan, where the acacia trees stretch from border to border. But the sap is "increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas" of the war ...

Sudan produces around 80 percent of the world's gum arabic, a natural substance harvested from acacia trees that's widely used in mass-market products including L'Oreal, lipsticks and Nestle, petfood ...

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 ...