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.

The banana-like crop enset with root crops growing below and useful trees above. Image by Tesfa-Alem Tekle for Mongabay. “The Gedeo people [get] high value [from] the indigenous agricultural ...

Image source, RBG Kew Image caption, The plant is a close relative of the banana and looks similar to its 'cousin' Enset is a staple in Ethiopia, where around 20 million people rely on it for food ...

Enset is a back-up plan for many Ethiopians. When other crops wilter, the enset usually survives.Image: DW/J. Breyer Cows and livestock also munch on the plant, providing protein in the form of ...

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.

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 ...

How Ethiopia's 'false banana' could be the crop to face climate change The enset plant – commonly known as the false banana – feeds some 20 million people in the highlands of Ethiopia. But its ...

A woman stands in front of a plantation of Enset, a plant that collects water and is essential during the dry season. A woman stands in front of a plantation of Enset, a plant that collects water ...

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 ...