Case Study: Ethiopia

• 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