Acacia gum, or food additive E414, is used by food and beverage manufacturers as a natural texturizing agent. FoodNavigator travels to Senegal to find out how the plant exudate is ‘tapped’ from ...

Before war broke out, Sudan was the world’s biggest gum arabic exporter, with an estimated market share of 70-80%.

Vol. 275, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue: Kinetics of Soil Physico-Chemical Processes (August 2005), pp. 261-269 (9 pages) The symbiotic biological N₂ fixation by Acacia Senegal was estimated using ...

Used since the Stone Age in Africa, acacia gum improves the stability and texture of food products. In today’s world of food innovation, it delivers myriad benefits from emulsification to thickening, ...

A type of acacia tree with an unusual growth habit -- unlike virtually all other trees -- holds particular promise for farmers in Africa as a free source of nitrogen for their soils that could last ...

The conflict in Sudan has turned attention to a rarely discussed commodity: gum arabic. This product, the dried sap of certain species of acacia trees, is used mainly as an additive in the soft drinks ...

KHATRE SY, Senegal, (AlertNet) – Dame Diop looks at the green leaves of trees growing on the sandy Sahelian soil of his Senegal village, Khatre Sy, and talks with modesty about the community’s effort ...

It’s almost Passover and, in Jerusalem, the acacias are in bloom. Nearly a year after Moses led the Jewish people out of Egypt during the first Passover, acacia wood would play a prominent role in a ...

NAIROBI, KENYA (24 August 2009)—Scientists said today at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry that a type of acacia tree with an unusual growth habit—unlike virtually all other trees—holds ...