Conference - Ethiopia’s green treasures
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This talk is organized in collaboration with the NGO ‘Regards d'Enfants d'Ethiopie’ to mark the centenary of the diplomatic visit of Ras Teferi Mekonnen to Luxembourg. Ras Teferi Mekonnen, later known as Haile Selassie I, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, a period of significant political change in Ethiopia and internationally. The talk will focus on the beauty of Ethiopia's plants, both wild and cultivated, and their importance to the future of urban life.
Speaker: Odile Weber
Odile curates the plant and fungal collections of the Naturmusée. She has conducted fieldwork and taught herbarium techniques in the Republic of the Congo and undertaken three field expeditions to remote eastern and western parts of Ethiopia. Notable publications include a monograph on the woody vegetation between the Ethiopian highlands and the lowlands of the Nile Valley in Sudan and South Sudan, and a perspectives paper in Nature Sustainability entitled “Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity.”
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Organized in partnership with NGO ‘Regards d'Enfants d'Ethiopie’
Speaker: Odile Weber, Naturmusée curator
Notable publications available in Nature Sustainability.
Where does it take place?
Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History
25
rue Münster
2160 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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