Info about how a climate-tolerant, banana-like starch plant (Enset), may help solve food insecurity in many regions of the world – article and podcast.

At first glance, Ensete ventricosum may look like a banana plant, with huge green fronds and a towering, thick brown pseudostem. But if you peel these orange, banana-cousin fruits, watch out: Instead ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alemnesh Habile, a resident of Tajene Kebele Enset or false banana Indigenous to Ethiopia, enset is a plant that is often referred as false banana because of its resemblance to the banana plant.

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 ...

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 ...

Often dubbed the false banana, the giant enset is a staple crop in certain parts of Ethiopia. As climate change brings increasingly frequent droughts, the plant's versatility and resilience could help ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA -Farmers and Wolayeta Sodo Zone Agriculture Office stressed that the increasing Enset plant diseases have seriously affected the ongoing food self-sufficiency in the Zone. A farmer and ...

Although varieties of the plant are found in many sub-Saharan countries, only in Ethiopia has it been domesticated. Land scarcity means farmers are turning to growing more lucrative cash crops, such ...

The climate crisis, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, has increased food insecurity for millions of people, particularly in the Global South. The United Nations warns that over the next 30 years, ...