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Foreword

Introduction

Description of Enset and Systems

Ecology and Environment

History

Uses

Agronomy and Production Management

Harvesting and Processing

Livestock

Gender Issues

Enset Farming Systems: Three Case Studies

Food Security and Sustainability

Future Prospects

Photo Plates:
Plates 1-4
Plate 5 series
Plate 6 series
Plates 7-9

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About the Authors
Acknowledgements

  
 

Authors' Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed directly and indirectly to this publication, which has its origins in the "Seminar on Enset in the Food Security of the Horn," held April 17, 1997 at the American Association for the Advancement Of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C. We are particularly grateful to Ato Lemma Mitiku, director, and Ato Adebecho Wachiso, former director, of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional Government (SNNPRG) Bureau of Agriculture; Ato Kelsa Kena, manager, and Ato Elias Urage, former manager, of the SNNPRG Agricultural Research Center for their enthusiastic support of enset research. We would also like to thank Deutche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zummenarbeit (GTZ) for its continued financial support of the Enset Needs and Assessment Project (ENAP), and in particular Dr. Thomas Labahn, director of GTZ/Ethiopia and W/t Rahel Teferi of GTZ/Ethiopia's project support services office.

Thanks are also due to Ato Bekalu Molla and W/t Asnaketch Tensaye, consultants during Phase 1 of ENAP, and Dr. Zinabu Gebre-Mariam, W/t Yewelsew Abeba, and Ato Admasu Tsegaye of Awassa College of Agriculture, Ato Assefa Amaldegen, Ato Ousman Surur, W/t Seble Shimles, Ato Tariku Menjeye, Ato Tesfaye Habte and Ato Tesfaye Tadesse of BAR, Ato Esetu Anito and Bizuayehu Haile of ARC, and W/o Meselech Melke of the SNNPRG Bureau of Culture and Information for their help in completing Phase 2 of ENAP. We also express our thanks to Sung A. Lee of the University of Colorado Department of Anthropology and Ethiopia's Institute of Agricultural Research for advice.

We would also like to thank the AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program and its director, Dr. Peter R. Schmidt, for initiating and organizing the Seminar, as well as coordinating all aspects of this publication. Our thanks also go to John Schoneboom, who has provided invaluable editorial assistance as part of the AAAS responsibilities, and who created the Web version of the document.

Finally, we wish to thank the farmers and their families, as well as the administrative officials in our study areas, for their willingness to share with us knowledge of this unique plant.

  
   
     
   
 

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