| Contributors offer no less than nine articles on the biophysical and socio-economic context of Miombo fruit trees and closes with lessons on domesticating nut trees. |
| The south is characterised by claustrophobic miles of deciduous miombo forests, relieved by serpentine brown rivers, refreshing highland ranges or patches of cultivation. |
| Much of the country is covered by miombo woodland, dominated by brachystegia species and others. |
| Africa's largest reserve, the Selous, is a massive 55,000 sq. km. of trackless wilderness covered by brachystegia and miombo woodland, palm fringed swamp and sand rivers. |
| Antelopes are well represented here, particularly the sable antelope which shows off their extravagant horns as they proudly march between stands of miombo woodland trees. |
| Large tracts of land naturally vegetated with predominantly miombo species and grasses were cleared to pave way for the fast growing exotic trees. |
