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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

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Gums and aromatic resins

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Gums and resins are important sources of income for the rural poor as well as a source of foreign exchange for countries in the drylands of East and West Africa and the Middle East [152]. They are hardened resinous plant exudates, obtained from several species of Acacia, Boswellia and Commiphora in the drylands. Currently, about 35 species of Acacia, Boswellia and Commiphora have been identified as potential producers of com - mercial gums and resins. But gums and resins are currently collected from only a few species [153]. Gum arabic is an exudate (oozed naturally or tapped by humans) from the stems or branches of Acacia senegal and A. seyal [154]. Frankincense is an aromatic resin oozed naturally or tapped by humans from various Boswellia species ( B. frereana , B. neglecta, B. papyrifera and B. secra ) while myrrh is a resin released by Commiphora myrrha and C. holtziana [155, 156].

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