The study was carried out within the DAAD programme Tropical Forestry Management at the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, TU-Dresden, Germany. The underlying empirical methodological research, including a half-year field survey has been executed between 2003 and 2005 and has led to a M.Sc. degree of the author.The study focuses on the practices of agro-silvo-pastoral system and the profitability of trees mainly Acacia senegal and other non-timber forest products in the livelihood of households in Enuhud province central-west of Sudan. It also analyses the impact of...