Ethiopia’s Second Country Report on the State of PGRFA to FAO Published
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008The existence of diverse farming systems, socio-economics, cultures and agro-ecologies has endowed Ethiopia with a diverse biological wealth of plants, animals, and microbial species, especially crop diversity. Crop plants such as coffee (Coffea arabica), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), tef (Eragrostis tef), noug (Guizotia abyssinica), anchote (Coccinia abyssinica) and enset (Ensete ventricosum) originated in Ethiopia.
