FAMINE FOODS IN EASTERN REGIONS
                    OF THE SUDAN
                                   SD9800009
                       By
                 Ba.da.wi Ibrahim Aimed
                 B.Sc, Agric, Honours
                      (1991)
                     A Thesis
         Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of The
          Requirements For The Degree Of Master
                 Of Science (Agric)
              Department of Biochemistry
                 and Soil Sciences
                Faculty of Agriculture
                University Of Khartoum
                   January, 1995
           29.39
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                             TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                                      Page
            LIST OF TABLES i
            LIST OF FIGURES H
            ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ///
            ARABIC ABSTRACT i v
            ENGLISH ABSTRACT vi
            CHAPTER ONE:
            1. Introduction 1
            CHAPTER TW:
            2. Literature Review 7
               2.1 Famine 7
               2.2 Famine in Sudan 9
               2.3 Famine relief in Sudan 12
               2.4 Famine in Eastern States 13
               2.5 Nutritional status during famine 14
               2.6 Famine foods in Eastern States 16
                  2.6.1 Echinochloa cpjpnum (Difra) .* 10
                      2.6.1.1 Botanical description 19
                      2.6.1.2 Literature review and usage in Sudan . 19
                  2.6.2 Sorghum Sudanese (Adar) 20
                      2.6.2.1 Botanical description 20
                      2.6.2.2 Literature review and usage in Sudan 20
                  2.6.3 Zizphus spina christi (Nabag) 20
                      2.6.3.1 Botanical description 20
                      2.6.3.2 Literature review and usage in Sudan .... 21
                  2.6.4 Balanites aegyptiaca (Laloub) 22
                      2.6.4.1 Botanical description 22
                      2.6.4.2 Literature review'and usage in Sudan 22
                  2.6.5 Hyphaene thebaica (Doum) 23
                      2.6.5.1 Botanical description 23
                      2.6.5.2 Literature review and usage in Sudan 23