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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