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Zemede Asfaw
Researcher at Addis Ababa University
Publications - 105
Citations - 5984
Zemede Asfaw is an academic researcher from Addis Ababa University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnobotany & Traditional knowledge. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 97 publications receiving 4636 citations. Previous affiliations of Zemede Asfaw include UPRRP College of Natural Sciences.
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The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people
Sandra Díaz,Sebsebe Demissew,Julia Carabias,Carlos Alfredo Joly,Mark Lonsdale,Neville Ash,Anne Larigauderie,Jay Ram Adhikari,Salvatore Arico,András Báldi,Ann M. Bartuska,Ivar Andreas Baste,Adem Bilgin,Eduardo S. Brondizio,Kai M. A. Chan,Viviana E. Figueroa,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Markus Fischer,Rosemary Hill,Thomas Koetz,Paul Leadley,Philip O'b. Lyver,Georgina M. Mace,Berta Martín-López,Michiko Okumura,Diego Pacheco,Unai Pascual,Edgar Selvin Pérez,Belinda Reyers,Eva Roth,Osamu Saito,Robert J. Scholes,Nalini Sharma,Heather Tallis,Randolph R. Thaman,Robert T. Watson,Tetsukazu Yahara,Zakri Abdul Hamid,Callistus Akosim,Yousef S. Al-Hafedh,Rashad Allahverdiyev,Edward Amankwah,T. Stanley Asah,Zemede Asfaw,Gabor Bartus,Anathea L. Brooks,Jorge Caillaux,Gemedo Dalle,Dedy Darnaedi,Amanda Driver (Sanbi),Gunay Erpul,Pablo Escobar-Eyzaguirre,Pierre Failler,Ali Moustafa Mokhtar Fouda,Bojie Fu,Haripriya Gundimeda,Shizuka Hashimoto,Floyd Homer,Sandra Lavorel,Gabriela Lichtenstein,William Armand Mala,Wadzanayi Mandivenyi,Piotr Matczak,Carmel Mbizvo,Mehrasa Mehrdadi,Jean Paul Metzger,Jean Bruno Mikissa,Henrik Moller,Harold A. Mooney,Peter J. Mumby,Harini Nagendra,Carsten Nesshöver,Alfred Oteng-Yeboah,György Pataki,Marie Roué,Jennifer Rubis,Maria Schultz,Peggy Smith,Rashid Sumaila,Kazuhiko Takeuchi,Spencer Thomas,Madhu Verma,Youn Yeo-Chang,Diana Zlatanova +83 more
TL;DR: The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework as discussed by the authors, which will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions.
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An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Zay people in Ethiopia
TL;DR: Results of the survey showed that leaf materials form the major component of plant parts harvested, and the majority of the remedies are prepared in the form of juice from freshly collected plant parts.
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Medicinal plants of the Meinit ethnic group of Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical study.
TL;DR: Acculturation of the young generation has been found to be the major treat to the continuation of traditional medical knowledge and practice in the study area and efforts should be made to incorporate traditional medicine in school curricula so that younger people could appreciate its usefulness.
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Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants around 'Dheeraa' town, Arsi Zone, Ethiopia.
TL;DR: The studied medicinal plants were those used in traditional health care of humans and livestock and only very few individuals of each species were found in the area and this might be attributed to the ongoing habitat modification and loss of natural vegetation.
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Ethnomedicinal study of plants used by Sheko ethnic group of Ethiopia.
TL;DR: The study indicated that men, older people and illiterate ones had better knowledge of medicinal plants use as compared to women, younger people and literate ones, respectively.