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Introduction and acknowledgements
This study is an attempt to better understand the role played by Acacia species in the rural economy of the drier regions of Africa and the Near East, the latter extending from the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea to the Indian Desert.
Much of the information presented has been gleaned from the Libraries of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Oxford Forestry Institute. Special acknowledgement is given for invaluable support provided by Mrs. F. Monti of the Forestry Library Service Point. I am greatly indebted to the help given me by D.M.W. Anderson, J. Ball, C.W. Fagg, W.J. Howard, J.K. Jackson, P.D. Koné, M.L. Malagnoux, P.L. Pugliese, F. Riveros, El Hadji Sène, and many others, who have aided me in the production of this report.