ELSEVIER - new paper in Food Policy: Food Security and indigenous orphan crop
Measure of indigenous perennial staple crop, Ensete ventricosum, associated with positive food security outcomes in southern Ethiopian highlands.
Highlights
- Indigenous giant banana relative enset unique traits add agrifood system resilience.
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Novel mature enset area measure improves three food security indicator models’ fit.
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Perennial enset’s overlapping generations a ‘moving average’ food insecurity metric
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Mature enset area indicates both buffering and adaptive contributions to stability
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Indigenous agrifood systems’ living assets and green storage require more study.
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