More information: Urs Schaffner et al, The Ecology and Management of Invasive Prosopis Trees in Eastern Africa (2024). DOI: 10.1079/9781800623644.0000 Provided by CABI ...

Hyderabad: By redeveloping the botanical garden on the campus, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) aims to create a gene bank of local varieties of wild fruits and ...

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 ...

Where there is a prosopis tree, there can’t be anything else. It will take up all the water and make the land dry,” says Moge Abdi Omar, the project coordinator of Women and Pastoralist Youth ...

Prosopis trees not only use water throughout the year, but even consume more water during the dry season, when almost all native plants have shed their leaves.

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 ...

Prosopis invasions: Battle against Africa’s worst weed. In densely invaded areas, the trees can consume about 50% of the annual rainfall of the region, severely depleting groundwater ...

Prosopis answers to none of herders' traditional needs: "If an animal has ever eaten its leaves, only Allah has seen; if there's a use for this tree, only Allah knows it," says Ibrahim Hamadou ...

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 ...

Despite this, students at the university accused the authorities of uprooting trees under the guise of a green initiative.

Some foreign tree species, like the African baobab, are bountiful. Others, like the Prosopis juliflora, were brought here for byproducts, have grown to dominate landscapes. And, as tussles over ...

Hyderabad: Tensions erupted at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Rajendranagar, on ...