Thorn trees and the quality of life in MsingaFootnote∗Acknowledgements
This paper is dedicated to Niel Alcock, founder of Capfarm Trust, whose love for the people and the land inspired this and many other studies of the problems and potential for a better quality of life in Black rural areas.
B.P. (South Africa) financed research on Acacia tortilis in Msinga in 1981 through the Institute of Natural Resources, University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg). Funding for Capfarm Trust's on‐going research at Mdukutshani comes from a number of donors among which we are particularly grateful to the Ford Foundation.
We are grateful to Prof. Eugene Moll, Botany Department, University of Cape Town for supervision of the study reported here, and to Richard Dean and anonymous referees for their comments on drafts of this paper.
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