Environmental Constraints In The Food Security Of Ethiopia

There are many types of agriculture around me. I live in Arkansas where agriculture is the largest industry, adding around $ 16 billion to the stateś economy annually. Some of the largest agricultural products I see around me are soybeans, cotton, timber, and grain.

Environmental factors are a factor that affect living and nonliving organisms and have participated in Ethiopia’s problem in food deficiency and food insecurity. A large environmental factor that can affect food deficiency and food insecurity is natural hazards and disasters. These can include droughts and floods which can upset agricultural production. For example, grain production and stocks are very low and droughts have hit harvests in grain-producing areas around the world. A more specific example for Ethiopia is that because of Ethiopia’s seasonal rainfall from mid-June to mid-September, soil erosion and

In Ethiopia, about 4.9 million acres of land is devoted to its production every year. From 2003-2005 production statistics indicated that tef accounted for about 29% of the land and 20% of the gross grain production of all major cereal cultivation in the country (National Research Council).

When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.

In this paper, I will explain about the country of Ethiopia and El Salvador’s language, calendar, religion, food, holiday, and flag. Ethiopia was formerly known as "Abyssinia” until the 20th century. Ethiopia is located in the horn of Africa (East Africa). Addis Ababa is a capital city of Ethiopia. It is the only African country to defeat a European colonial power, and retain its sovereignty as an independent country. El Salvador is a small Central American nation. It is located in the continent of Central America. The capital city of El Salvador is San Salvador.

Now that I’ve talked about Liberia let’s move on to Ethiopia. Ethiopia has an area of 1,104,296 sq, km. and 426,37. In 2016 the Ethiopian population was 102.4 million. Like Liberia, Ethiopian has a growth population rate of 2.5%.

Madagascar is a country plagued by food insecurity. This means they are without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable nutritious food. This problem is most apparent in their agricultural population. In order to improve food security their needs to be changes made to provide a sufficient food supply and reduce poverty in this growing population. Their society depends on producing the most food and or profit from their limited amount of land that is arable. One way to help this dilemma they face is with, Improved planting methods and usage of nonfood biomass or their exported products to produce biofuel. This in turn could be used to increase the total amount of food available. This can also provide food security to the agricultural sector where extreme poverty is most apparent.

Ethiopia is a country of 102 million people and is known for its ancient culture, especially the fact that human origins lead to the African nation. Ethiopia sits in of the most economically vibrant regions of the world and exports vital resources to major economic powerhouses such as India, China and the United States of America. The growth rate of Ethiopia in terms of Gross Domestic Product was 8 % in 2015. It is one of the fastest growing nations in Africa currently. Ethiopia has maintained good economic relations with the African countries and has considered sustainable development to be of utmost importance for the growth of Africa as a continent.

Addis Ababa, a city filled with modern day shops to museums filled with an historyical Ethiopia objects.You can explore all. Addis Ababa in English means new flower, it's also called Finfinne by local Oromo population meaning natural springs. Addis Ababa is composed of many different ethnics groups, the two main ones are Oromo, and Amhara people which also means mostly those two languages dominate the city. 33.8 percent of the city speaks Oromo language compared to where 29.33 percent of the population speaks Amharic and about 6 percent of the population speaks

Coffee farming has provided jobs to the Ethiopians since it ha started being produced, and it is all just one cycle. As a nation, they can’t escape the poverty because it is all they know how to do, coffee farm. They were not trained or taught other skills because the demand was for cheap coffee harvested with even cheaper labor. It is a system that they as a nation can’t escape. Coffee farming will forever be an availability to them and while it may not be desirable, the farmers are trying to provide a life for their family and will go to any

Today I will talk about food security in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DR Congo is an African country that consists of over 2,300,000 square kilometres (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The population in DR Congo is around seventy-five and a half million people with an average life expectancy of 56 years, a lot shorter than Australians (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The religion consists of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslims plus some other smaller religions (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The capital city is called Kinshasa, with other large cities called Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi and Kananga (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The Democratic Republic of

Located in central Africa, South Sudan is landlocked amid the countries of Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Kenya and the Central African Republic. It is a land of expansive grassland, swamps and tropical rain forests. The country is linguistically and ethnically very diverse. It is a home to more approximately 11 million people, 50.6% of whom are below the poverty line. It has a Gross Domestic Product (per capita) of $1,220. Commerce and infrastructure is extremely underdeveloped in the nation and poverty is very common. The majority of the population depend on agriculture for subsistence. Maize, rice, millet, cattle, wheat, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and sorghum are native to the land and serve as the primal source of food. The nation is covered in open plains, and rainforest vegetation. The Nile River is one of the biggest natural features of the South Sudan. It cuts the country and passes through regional centers including the capital city of Juba. It facilitates trade and urbanization. Electricity is produced mostly through costly diesel generators and indoor plumbing. The economy of South Sudan is intricately linked with Sudan. It produces nearly three-fourths of former Sudan’s total oil output of nearly a half million barrels per day. Oil is the focal point for exports. It derives nearly 98% of its budget revenues from oil. The nation is also troubled by a substantial amount of debt and is heavily dependent on foreign nations for aid. After its liberation

In trying to answer the question, can poverty be eliminated, there are many different ways to address the subject of poverty. For purposes of this research, poverty is going to be looked at from the perspective of food security on a global level. ARS Food Security Research: USDA ARS. (2016) states that food security is defined as when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. Food security includes the physical and economic access to food that meets their dietary needs. It has been established that food security is built on three factors, which include; food availability, food access, and food use. Food availability establishes that there are sufficient quantities that are consistently available. Food access ensures there are sufficient resources available to obtain the food that are necessary for a nutritious diet. It needs to be understood that food security is a very complex issue relating to sustainable development that is linked to health through malnutrition, sustainable economic development, environment, and trade. Globally, while agriculture remains the largest employment sector of most developing countries, it is important for a country’s food security that there are international trade agreements.

Ethiopia is endowed with variety of ecological and climatic condition. It is also home to some of the most diverse flora and fauna in Africa. This makes the country to lead in honey and beeswax production in Africa though major of its production is traditional (Allafrica.com, 2009).

Food security is a fundamental and growing problem in Timor-Leste, a nation that has is still rebuilding from their violent struggle for independence. The country’s turbulent and conflict-filled history, as well as a broad range of political and social issues, have greatly influenced the state of the nation today. Timor-Leste has a well-established dependency on agricultural production that, when it fails, sustains some of the highest levels of food insecurity and poverty in the world. However, the agriculture sector also provides Timor-Leste’s most promising opportunity to develop, reinvent, and implement systems that address underlying threats to food security and economic growth. This essay aims to provide some background