Reconsideration of the Enset Cultivation for Food in Northern Ethiopia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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  • 17，18世紀北部エチオピアにおけるエンセーテの食用栽培に関する再検討
  • 17,18セイキ ホクブ エチオピア ニ オケル エンセーテ ノ ショクヨウ サイバイ ニ カンスル サイケントウ

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Enset is a plant genus that is part of the Musaceae family. This plant grows in the tropical highlands of Africa and Asia. It is known that several ethnic groups in south-western Ethiopia make use of starch of the corm and pseudostem of this plant for food.<br>Several Europeans who visited northern Ethiopia from the 17th to the 18th century reported that this plant was cultivated for food in the regions near the source of the Blue Nile. Although several articles have been devoted to trace Enset cultivation in northern Ethiopia, these studies fail to grasp its historical background. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the historical background of the Enset cultivation for food in northern Ethiopia by reconsidering Ethiopian and European source on Enset.<br>I concluded that before the Oromo migration, several ethnic groups, who grew Enset for food, lived around Lake Fincha situated in the south of the Blue Nile and Enset cultivation for food in the regions near the source of the Blue Nile during the 17th and 18th centuries had close relation with these groups.

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