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Famine aid may have brought Ethiopia an invasive weed

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Famine aid may have brought Ethiopia an invasive weed

Parthenium weed may have entered Ethiopia in food aid sent during the 1980s famine, though researchers have not identified the donor country. The invasive plant now reduces forage by as much as 90 percent in some areas.

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