Irvingia gabonensis, also known as 'bush mango', is a multipurpose fruit tree, native to
tropical Africa. It is a priority indigenous fruit tree in western and central Africa since its wood …

Main conclusion Over the last 25 years, the process of domesticating culturally-important,
highly-nutritious, indigenous food-tree species. Integrating these over-looked …

We execute tree 'domestication'as a farmer-driven and market-led process, which matches
the intraspecific diversity of locally important trees to the needs of subsistence farmers …

Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early
1990s and became an international initiative. A participatory approach now supplements the …

The Miombo, the most extensive tropical woodland formation of Africa directly supports the
livelihoods of over 100 million people through the provision of many tree products and …

This study obtained quantitative data on fruit and nut traits from two indigenous fruit trees in
West Africa (Irvingia gabonensis and Dacryodes edulis), which have led to the identification …

New initiatives in agroforestry are seeking to integrate indigenous trees, whose products
have traditionally been gathered from natural forests, into tropical farming systems such as …

More than 420 research papers, involving more than 50 tree species, form the literature on
agroforestry tree domestication since the 1992 conference that initiated the global …

Many studies have stressed the importance of trees to rural households. Few, however,
have focused on actual numbers and densities of trees in different land-use systems. Based …

Ten fruit and kernel traits were measured in 152 Irvingia gabonensis and 293 Dacryodes
edulis trees from 6 villages in Cameroon and Nigeria. Frequency distribution curves were …