Ethiopia drought (Developing)

• Causes of drought in Ethiopia

  • Since the 1980s the short rain season has been getting shorter and increasingly delayed
  • The long rain season has become unpredictable
  • Warming of the Indian Ocean means rising air loses moisture as rainfall and dryer air moves westward over East Africa
• Social effects of drought in Ethiopia

  1. 85% of the population depend on farming
  2. Hunger and malnutrition
  3. Only 57% of people have access to water
  4. Water sources often become polluted which leads to disease
  5. Causes rural to urban migration
• Economic effects of drought in Ethiopia

  1. Increased cost of food as food supplies decrease
  2. Foreign trade affected e.g. selling coffee beans
• Environmental effects of drought in Ethiopia

  1. Crops die
  2. Ground dried and cracked
  3. Water sources are polluted
  4. Marshland dry out
  5. Rivers polluted by dead animals
• Media responses to drought in Ethiopia

  • Band Aid 1985 ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’ to raise money
• Charities/organisation responses to drought in Ethiopia

  • NGO’s like UNICEF and Oxfam work with local experts to help the worst affected people
  • Charities/organisation provide clean water, food and medical care
  • Charities/organisation provide helped local people develop new farming techniques.
  • UNICEF spent US$60 million on aid
• Government responses to drought in Ethiopia

  1. Government organised relief programmes
• Local people responses to drought in Ethiopia

  1. Educated on new farming techniques