Acacia tree fuels multi-billion gum, resin industry in northern Kenya

Rendille women harvest and sort gum collected from acacia trees at Ndigir Village in Laisamis, Marsabit County. PHOTO | NICHOLAS KOMU | NMG

For generations, pastoral communities in northern Kenya knew no other source of livelihood than livestock. To them, the acacia tree was nothing more than a source of wood, fodder and shade.

Little did they know that they were sitting on hundreds of thousands of acres of unexplored treasure, capable of changing the fortunes of a region characterised by hunger and poverty.

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