Decades of food delivery and 'miracle' seeds haven't addressed underlying causes of hunger. But new efforts to replicate Africa's original ecosystems are generating impressive, sustainable results.

Unique Acacia Tree's Promise To Revive African Soils. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 08 / 090824182535.htm. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).

Scientists have discovered that an acacia tree, long used by farmers in parts of Africa, could dramatically raise food yields in Africa. The acacia tree Faidherbia albida, also known as Mgunga in ...

Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating story about book design. It posted a collage of 36 covers of books that were ...

Also called thorny acacia, this plant is found in Africa and India. (Getty Images: Lalit Mohan Sethee)This particular species, a thorny African tree with feathery foliage and fuzzy yellow orbs for ...

Ecologists have discovered the secret weapon used by certain acacia trees to defend themselves against ravenous elephants: ants. The finding could one day help conservationists protect vulnerable ...

A total of 120,000 seeds from 13 African tree species, including the baobab, Adansonia digitata and white acacia, Faidherbia albida, were deposited in the icy chambers.

A reader of the blog posted on Twitter a collage of 36 prominent books set in or about Africa, all of which seem to have the same sort of image on the cover: of a drooping, usually solitary acacia ...

Beware the Acacia Tree in Leadership Decision-Making. ByAdam Vigdor ... the book front jackets are all of a type that swathes an African tree (Acacia) in dusty reds and moody yellows. Picture ...

In South Africa, more than 20,000 square miles of grasslands have been replaced by woodlands since 1990, according to a survey by the South African National Biodiversity Institute.