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Climate change is one of the main global challenges in the 21 century. In order to adapt its adverse impacts the world is expected to look for diverse alternatives in terms of food/feed supply and protection of the environment. Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is one of the most important candidate plants to tackle the impact of climate change. Enset is a multipurpose crop that is used for food, fiber, medicine, wrapping, storage,livestock feed, etc. The plant has many untapped potentials though its utilization as food is restricted only in Southern and Southwestern part of…mehr

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Climate change is one of the main global challenges in the 21 century. In order to adapt its adverse impacts the world is expected to look for diverse alternatives in terms of food/feed supply and protection of the environment. Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is one of the most important candidate plants to tackle the impact of climate change. Enset is a multipurpose crop that is used for food, fiber, medicine, wrapping, storage,livestock feed, etc. The plant has many untapped potentials though its utilization as food is restricted only in Southern and Southwestern part of Ethiopia. It is a safeguard tree in the face of adverse environmental conditions because of its high productivity per unit of land, storage capacity for a long time without spoilage, use at any stage of development and resistance to climate fluctuations. The book provides the details of enset production, its adaptability under a given environmental condition and the way forward on enset. Reading this book means becoming part of the solution in tackling hunger and climate change globally.
Autorenporträt
Ayalew Talema is a lecturer of Botany in Jimma University. He obtained BSc and MSC degrees from Addis Ababa University in Biology, Botanical Science, in 2000 and 2006. He is a PhD scholar in KU Leuven, Belgium in the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, since March 2011.