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Australian acacias: weeds or useful trees?

2012-11-01

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By promoting Australian acacias to the developing world, aid and development agencies are failing to learn from the mistakes made with mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) and jatropha (Jatropha curcas)—two plants with weedy attributes that have done more harm than good when promoted in Africa as aid. The belief in “miracle” plants that can lift people quickly out of poverty is problematical, because such plants have the...

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Literature Corpus work: 9539a24d-b76c-5ab3-8d9c-429804214093
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0243-8

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