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1979

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The Man Behind Africa’s Largest Gene bank​

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia​

Melaku Worede was a conservationist and agronomist from Ethiopia. Dr. Worde helped preserve his country’s genetic diversity by collecting and safely storing a considerable amount of Ethiopia’s genetic wealth. In the process of storing this genetic diversity, Melaku Worede established not only Africa’s finest facility of its kind but one of the world’s premier genetic conservation systems​

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