Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old ...

The baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) is increasingly recognised for its multifaceted benefits, spanning ecological sustainability, nutritional richness and economic potential. Contemporary research ...

Mangoule, SENEGAL, (Reuters) - Taerou Dieuhiou has been shinning barefoot up baobab trees in Senegal's southern Casamance region to collect the oblong fruit since he was 15. Business has never been ...

Have you ever seen a monkey-bread tree? It’s the tree of life — the tree from which our ancestors were able to get sustenance all year round because its fruit is the only one in the world that dries ...

Ed Witkowski receives funding from National Research Foundation - Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB). Kelsey Glennon receives funding from the National Research Foundation.

(Reuters) - The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it ...

The clean label trend among consumers is encouraging brands to formulate using natural flavours, and even 'no added flavours', creating space for botanical ingredients. “Flavour remains an important ...

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life,” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products. Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the ...

This story was originally reported by Edward McAllister, Editing by Anna Willard for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Until recently baobabs were only tapped for local use but in a major business shift ...