A study was carried out in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Urban forests in Addis Ababa are affected by various problems such as encroachment, illegal cuttings, low legal enforcement and improper tree selection. Consequently, the main objective of this study was to assess the challenges and problems of the city’s urban forests and to provide recommendations for different stakeholders...

Restoration and maintenance of soil fertility is a basic but critical ecological problem especially in the tropics where the soils are nutrient deficient particularly P and N. The degraded soils are reclaimed through afforestation programmes with multifarious forest legume tree species along with beneficial microbes. Acacia nilotica, commonly known as Indian Gum-Arabic Tree and locally „Babul‟ ...

In the study were presented data for comparison of antibacterial activities between long time stored acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), multifloral and oak (Quercus spp.) honeydew honeys towards Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 9144). The results showed that the antibacterial activity of oak honeydew and multifloral honeys was much higher in comparison with acacia honeys with the lowest antibacterial...

Acacia mangium is a fast-growing dicotyledonous tree species and has become the dominating plantation in Malaysia. It was grown particularly as a raw material for veneer, pulp, and paper industries. The chemical properties test in this study showed that the A. mangium tree bark contains higher extractive content as compared to the wood portion (sapwood). Tannin extracts from A. mangium tree bar...

This study explored the availability and consumption pattern of various traditional biomass fuels, preference of and expenditure for biomass fuels, problems with the uses of biomass fuels and villagers’ strategy to cope with the biomass fuel problems. Data were collected from 330 households under three wealth categories – well-off, middle and poor households. Households were found to depend lar...

The present investigation aimed to analyze the role of agroforestry systems in improving soil organic matter status, microbial activity and nitrogen availability with a view to effective management of the fertility of moderately alkaline soils. The study site was located at Karnal (29◦59′N, 76◦51′E, 250 m.s.l.) and the systems were characterized by a rice–berseem crop rotation; agrisilvicultura...