Africa’s Tree-Planting Boom Is Overlooking the Trees That Feed People
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The mbula plum does not look like a solution to anything. It is a scrubby, slow-growing thing, common across the woodlands of Malawi, the sort of tree a passer-by might walk straight past. But its flowers feed the bees that make honey, its fruit is loaded with antioxidants, and its bark and leaves have been used for generations to treat pneumonia, earaches, even cataracts. One tree, a dozen uses. And across Africa, in the rush to put trees back into the ground, species like it are being left out
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