WELKITE, Ethiopia — Even as drought and starvation threaten millions of Ethiopians, farmers in this southern province say they aren’t worried about hunger, thanks to an ancient but little understood ...
Dibaabish Jaboo kneads the pale, vegetative flesh of the enset plant, like her mother did, like her granddaughters do. When she's finished, she bundles the plant's thick, decomposing stalk into its 12 ...
Food scientists say greater cultivation of enset could help provide needed calories during drought and food shortages. Enset [Ensete ventricosum] is a domesticated tree crop grown in southern Eritrea ...
The enset plant – commonly known as the false banana – feeds some 20 million people in the highlands of Ethiopia. But its potential is far greater. Resistant to drought and able to grow all year round ...
A tree scientists believe may hold the key to giving food security to millions of people across east Africa has flowered for the first time at Kew Gardens. The Ethiopian enset will produce a ...
Hunger is expensive: The World Food Program (WFP) announced recently that child malnutrition in Ethiopia costs 55.5 billion Br every year. That is 16.5% of the gross domestic product: nearly a fifth ...
A remarkable enset tree, also known as a ‘false banana’, has flowered at Kew Gardens for the first time. The Ethiopian ‘wonder crop’ has been called the ‘tree against hunger’ because it is resistant ...
One of the two enset - or 'false banana' - plants at Kew Gardens in London has flowered for the very first time. Situated in the Temperate House, the specimen will only flower once before it withers ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Described as "a banana on steroids", enset may be the superfood you've never heard of, let alone tasted, but scientists say it could be ...
The enset plant - commonly known as the false banana - feeds some 20 million people in the highlands of Ethiopia. But its potential is far greater. Resistant to drought and able to grow all year round ...
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Hunger is expensive: The World Food Program (WFP) announced recently that child malnutrition in Ethiopia costs 55.5 billion Br every year. That is 16.5pc of the gross domestic product: nearly a fifth ...
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