Sudan's vast woodland savanna, or gum arabic belt, stretches from the border with Ethiopia in the east to Chad in the west, providing the ideal habitat for the two gum arabic producing acacia trees, ...

Al-Obeid, May 19, 2025 (SUNA) – The Dean of the Gum Arabic Research and Desertification Studies Institute at the University of Kordofan, Dr. Hamdoun Ali Abdel-Rahman, told SUNA that the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

For millennia, the gum of the acacia tree has been prized for its unusual culinary and medical uses. Now, the trees are part of a continent-wide effort to hold back the Sahara Desert.

For decades gum arabic has made some rich, and there remain Sudanese who hope it will make their fortune. Abdel-Magid Gadir says he has planted 34 million trees, but has not yet made his millions. He ...

Damaturu – Gum Arabic Farmers and Marketers Association in Yobe said over N700 million worth of gum arabic trees and the product were lost annually to firewood poachers in the state.

Gum Arabic Market Research Report Information By Type (Senegalia, Senegal, and Vachellia), By Function (Thickeners, Stabilizers, Gelling Agent, and others) Application [Food & Beverages ...

This means that many African countries export crude gum arabic at low prices and then re-import the processed gum at considerably higher costs. A chance for sustainable growth The global demand for ...

Gum arabic from Africa’s acacia trees in the Sahel is used in hundreds of products: what’s worth knowing Published: April 29, 2024 10:28am EDT. Asgar Ali, University of Nottingham.

Analysis - 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 ...