Case Study: Ethiopia

Subdecks (3)

Cards (18)

  • Factors Impacting Development:
    Climate/ terrain:
    • unpredictable & unreliable precipitation
    • erosion / desertification
  • Factors Impacting Development:
    Conflict:
    • North Ethiopia 2020 civil war
    • 1974 monarchy overthrown
    • 1977 ”red terror” areas of land overthrown (Derg)
  • Factors Impacting Development:
    Education:
    • 51.8% literacy rate
    • Most children stay in school until 8 years
  • Factors Impacting Development:
    Population Growth:
    • 2.5 annual change
    • Growing workforce
    Locusts:
    • 2020 horrendous invasion
    • 460sq miles 40-80 ion locusts
    • eat weight in crops a day: £423 million pounds crops a day
  • Factors Impacting Development:
    International Laws:
    • millennium goals
    • plans to end poverty, universal primary education & gender equality
    Investment:
    • since 2012 new training, programs, investments in farming: crop rotation, soil fertility, crops to avoid ect