Once it's ready, she can store the bundle underground, or pound it into flour for bread or porridge. Here, in southern Ethiopia, enset thrives on farms that could be mistaken for forests—growing ...

"If we give more attention to the enset plant I think it can have the potential to feed 100 million people globally within the next 40 years." Addisu has created a very versatile flour from ...

Clustered around nearly every mud-walled hut in these highlands are the tall, big-leafed stalks of enset trees, also known as false banana, which grow wild in eastern and southern Africa but are ...

Enset is a relative of the banana. It has been cultivated in a parts of Ethiopia for generations because it has several unique characteristics that make it a resilient and reliable staple crop.

Scientists say the plant enset, an Ethiopian staple, could be a new superfood and a lifesaver in the face of climate change. The banana-like crop has the potential to feed more than 100 million ...

But the enset (Ensete ventricosum), a relative that looks so similar it’s sometimes called the “false banana,” has never expanded beyond its birthplace in southwestern Ethiopia.

E. ventricosum, colloquially known as “enset,” has gained such a reputation for its misleading fruit that it is often called “the false banana.” And yet, enset feeds 20 million people in ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. LONDON — Described as “a banana on steroids,” enset may be the superfood you’ve never heard of, let alone ...

Are you ready for a new menu in 2050? The enset or "false banana" is an Ethiopian crop with the potential to feed more than 100million people. Atlas Obscura says the enset tastes like flatbread ...

The enset, also known as the false banana or Ethiopian banana, is a perennial, ten-meter high plant grown in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands, where it is a staple food for 20 million people.