Once hailed as a solution to Ethiopia's creeping desertification, a foreign tree is now spreading uncontrollably across the ...

Once lauded as a remedy for Ethiopia’s advancing desertification, a non-native tree has transformed into an uncontrolled ...

A team of scientists led by CABI have conducted a new study which shows that three ways to fight the invasive Prosopis juliflora tree in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania all proved very effective in ...

The adoption of a sustainable land management practice (SLM) to manage invasive Prosopis juliflora -- considered one of the world's most threatening non-native tree species -- appears to have ...

Prosopis juliflora seriously diminishes water resources in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, consuming enough of this already scarce resource to irrigate cotton and sugarcane generating some US$ 320 ...

An invasive evergreen tree, known as Prosopis juliflora, is quite the thirsty species. Prosopis has taken over large swaths of the Afar Region in Ethiopia and while one might think the added green ...

When Asha Abdikadir Ahmed used to cook with firewood, her restaurant filled with billowing clouds of smoke. But now, when she tosses a briquette onto the fire, it burns clean and lasts all morning.

The resilient and adaptable mesquite tree, was introduced to East Africa to provide foliage, fuel, and animal fodder in arid areas. In the 1970s and 1980s the evergreen Prosopis juliflora, native to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The literature does not contain a field report of nodulation for the xerophytic tree legumes of the genus Prosopis despite their widespread ...