How Ethiopia’s indigenous plant secures the future
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Muluken Ekule, Katrien Descheemaeker, Aart Linden, Jane Wamatu, Barbara Rischkowsky. (25/12/2025). How Ethiopia’s indigenous plant secures the future. URL: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/food-feed-bank-how-ethiopias-indigenous-plant-secures-better-future
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While climate change threatens across the country, Southern Ethiopian farmers have cultivated a solution: A drought-tolerant plant that stores both food and feed in its tissues year-round. The plant, enset, Ensete ventricosum, is referred to as the ‘false banana’, a nutrient bank, a cornerstone of climate-resilient farming for over 20 million people. When dry seasons limit the availability of other animal feed resources, enset continues to provide reliable and an ever-growing source of nutrition.
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Descheemaeker, Katrien https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-2034
Wamatu, Jane https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3544-6718
Rischkowsky, Barbara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0035-471X
Wamatu, Jane https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3544-6718
Rischkowsky, Barbara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0035-471X