Background Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently provides
the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over much of East …

Societal Impact Statement The global success and expansion of a small pool of major crops,
including rice, wheat and maize, risks homogenising global agriculture. Focusing on the …

We strongly respect and support Ethiopia’s prerogative to investigate and implement GM
technologies to improve the lives and livelihoods of its people, based on their relative merits …

Societal Impact Statement Enset is a staple food for over 20 million people via its starch‐rich
corm and pseudostem, yet it is virtually unknown outside a narrow zone of cultivation in …

Clonal propagation enables favourable crop genotypes to be rapidly selected and multiplied.
However, the absence of sexual propagation can lead to low genetic diversity and …

This study was conducted on Boda Forest in West Showa Zone, Oromia National Regional
State, west Ethiopia with the objective of determining the floristic composition, species …

Crop diversity plays a major role in underpinning food security. It is especially important to
smallholder and subsistence farmers, who often rely on crop diversity for stable and resilient …

Trees, shrubs, herb and grasses are the basic components of the home garden agroforestry
systems in Ethiopia and have been practiced for a long time. Hence, the aim of this study …

Biodiesel was prepared by extracting oil from Cladophora glomerata green algae followed
by transesterification of the oil using NaOH as a catalyst. The algae Oil extraction was carried …

This study was conducted to investigate the floristic composition of woody species in Lammo
natural Forest, Tembaro woreda, Kembata-Tembaro zone, Southern Ethiopia. 52 quadrants…