From Survival Crop to Scalable Climate & Women-Led Innovation
Enset Innovation Institute Inc. is a global platform institution integrating research, women-led enterprise, and climate finance to scale Enset as a resilient food and livelihood system in Ethiopia, with long-term relevance across the East African Highlands.
“Enset is not just a crop—it is a biocultural system linking climate resilience, women’s livelihoods, and the cultural identity of the Enset-growing highland communities of Ethiopia”
Asratie Teferra, Co-Founder & President, Enset Innovation Institute Inc
40M+
People supported by Enset Systems
5.11M
Projected jobs across the value chain
99M tones
National production target by 2030
$4.9B
Potential export opportunity
OUR MODEL – SYSTEMS APPROACH
EII operates as a systems integrator aligning research institutions, women-led SMEs, government strategy, and climate finance pathways. Rather than implementing isolated projects, the Institute convenes partnerships that enable structured, long-term scale.
WOMEN & LABOR TRANSFORMATION
Women perform the majority of Enset processing labor, often under physically demanding and time-intensive conditions. EII serves as a global advocacy and coordination platform aligning research institutions, government strategy, women-led enterprises, and catalytic financing to accelerate processing innovation, improve hygiene, and expand equitable enterprise pathways.
FIELD-GROUNDED INSIGHTS
Recent field engagement across Southern Ethiopia reinforced that Enset scale is constrained less by production than by coordination—including processing technology access, SME financing, research dissemination, and market linkage. EII works to align these actors through a consortium-based platform anchored in Ethiopia’s national Enset development strategy.
Partner With the Platform
Catalytic partnerships can unlock Enset’s transformation into a climate-resilient, women-centered enterprise system
Consortium Partners
