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Wolde Tadesse
African Studies Centre,
University of Oxford
The Enset landscape A cultural perspective
Enset: gardens, fields, forests, pastures & people
Seasons, wildlife and Nutrition
Enset system = People + food + forests + pastures
Structures of governance
©Toby McLeod© Desalegne Desisa
©Toby McLeod ©Toby McLeod
Interconnected landscapes: Local, regional and beyond
Enset: a key to diversity
• Varietal diversity• Crops• Cultivation
methods• Processing
methods• Soil conservation
practices• Inter-landscape
resilience
• Varietal diversity• Crops• Cultivation
methods• Processing
methods• Soil conservation
practices• Inter-landscape
resilience
References Photos Credit:
Wolde Gossa Tadesse
Nico Lewis
Toby McLeod.
References:
Brandt S, Spring A, Heibisch C, McCabe S, Tabogie E, Diro M, Welde-Michael, G, Yentiso G, Shigeta M, Tesfaye S (1997) “The Tree Against Hunger”: enset-based agricultural systems in Ethiopia. American Association for the Advancement of Sceince, Washington
Getachew Tadesse, Erika Zavaleta, Carol Shenan. Coffee landscapes as refugia for native woody biodiversity as forest loss continues in southwest Ethiopia, Biological Conservation (2014) 384-391
Leah H Samberg, Carol Shenan & Erika Zavaleta (2010) Human and Enviromental Factors Affect Crop Diversity in An Ethiopian Highland Agroecosystem, The Professional Geographer, 62:3, 395-408, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2010.483641
Shipton P, African Famines and Food Security: Anthropological perspectives. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol 19, (1990)
Temesgen Magule Olango, Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Marcello catelanni and Mario Enrico Pe. Indigenous Knowledge, use and on-farm management of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) diversity in Wolaita, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnoiology and Ethnomedicine 2014, 10:41
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