Acacia project
 R.D. Barnes |
Population pressure and drought are causing deforestation
and land degradation
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 R.D. Barnes |
Exotic species have rarely proved to be successful in this situation and the solution is increasingly being sought among the natural pioneers, particularly the acacias. There is a need for the farmer, and the scientist and extension workers who work on their problems, to be provided with information that will enable them to identify Acacia species effectively.
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 Chris Fagg |
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 Chris Fagg |
This project was led by the late Dr Richard Barnes in Oxford and involved a network of collaboration throughout Africa. One aspect of Richard Barnes', and his colleagues, work was extensive fieldwork in Africa. This produced extensive sets of photographic slides of Acacia species. |
 Chris Fagg |
We hope that these images are going to be useful for the whole range of people who have an interest in African Acacia species. |
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Images and information on African Acacia species will continue to be added to this site. |
throughout the semi-arid parts of the African continent. Trees
are needed in agricultural systems to provide fuelwood, fodder
and shelter, to rehabilitate degraded land and particularly to
increase the productivity of non-arable land. 
Concerns
over the potential for using Acacia species in Africa,
led DFID, through the Forestry Research Programme (FRP), to fund
a research programme on the biology and taxonomy of African acacias.
Some
of these images, together with 
