Ethiopia: Will the fake banana solve the climate crisis?
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Ethiopia
Published Jan 27, 2022
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For now, a plant called enset, also called 'fake banana', grown only in Ethiopia, can be our savior in the food shortage caused by the climate crisis awaiting humanity, according to experts! Here are the interesting details of the news… The climate crisis, which is getting worse with the effect of the coronavirus epidemic, has brought along a great food deprivation especially for underdeveloped countries.
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According to the warning made by the United Nations, if serious steps are not taken on global warming in the next 30 years, food supply and security will be under great threat. Exposure of seeds to prolonged droughts, heat waves, flash floods and insect infestations will mean poverty and hunger for billions of people. The production of vital products such as corn and wheat is gradually decreasing due to climate events due to the increase in fossil emissions. While the annual consumption of corn in Africa and Central America reaches 1 billion tons, wheat also meets 20 percent of the world population's calorie and protein needs. As such, horticulturalists and agronomists are in search of seeds that are less well known but more resilient and that can be grown abundantly to feed a growing population in our rapidly warming world. The plant, which is also called 'Enset' and is also called the Ethiopian banana or fake banana, comes into play right here. This plant, which grows in the ...
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