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Miombo
Introduction
This Item presents aggregate and structured CBNRM knowledge on the miombo biome. Miombo, or miombo woodlands, are the largest continuous dry deciduous forests in the world (approximately 2.8 million km2). They extend across much of central, eastern and southern Africa, including Angola, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania Zambia and Zimbabwe. Miombo does not comprise dense closed canopy forest but varying densities of tree 'savanna' dominated by three related genera of the legume family: Brachystegia, Julbernardia and/or Isoberlinia. Fire and farming are critical in the development and maintenance of miombo ecosystems (source: Miombo Forum, see URL below).
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