Ethiopia Suffers in Poverty

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1.0 Introduction

Ethiopia is located in east Africa; it is bordered by Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world with 38 per cent of the 86 million inhabitants below the poverty line.

2.0 Methods of Research

The search engines I have used are secondary sources, the websites I have used a reliable sources as they have been created and written by organisations or experts in that area. I collected the main information from these sources and put them into dot points.

3.0 Statement of findings

3.1 Food production in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s economy is made up of mainly agriculture; 80%-85% of all Ethiopians are employed in agriculture particularly farming. 60% of output from agriculture is crops; Ethiopia cultivates a large variety of crops which consist of cereals, corn, wheat, barley, oats, sorghum, soybean, chick peas, coffee, tea, tobacco, banana, orange, grape, lemon, onion, tomato, carrot, mango, apple, pineapple, avocado, cabbage, potato and many more. It is predicted that around 16.5 million hectares of land is used to grow...

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