Melaku Worede (1936 to 2023) was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist, born in Shewa to a family of Shewan aristocrats. He travelled to the United States in the 1960s for postgraduate study and obtained a PhD in agronomy, with a focus on plant genetics and breeding, from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. In 1989 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for preserving Ethiopia's genetic wealth by building one of the finest seed conservation centres in the world. He appears in the 2012 film Seeds of Justice and was a long-term ally of the Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, leading trainings for field officers working across Africa. The Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute announced his death on 31 July 2023.
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Melaku was born in 1936, in Shewa, Ethiopia
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On 31 July 2023, the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI) announced that Melaku had died.
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was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist
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was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist
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He obtained a PhD in Agronomy with a focus on plant genetics and breeding
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for preserving Ethiopia's genetic wealth by building one of the finest seed conservation centres in the world
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He obtained a PhD in Agronomy with a focus on plant genetics and breeding
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