Ethiopia

Question 1

What is the ethiopian economy dependant on?

Answer 1

coffee

Question 2

How much of the ethiopian population is illiterate?

Answer 2

2/3

Question 3

What is the growth and technology plan?

Answer 3

a plan which was provided by the government which provides skills to the farmers to increase crop yield

Question 4

What are the 2 tribes in Ethiopia and what is happening to their land?

Answer 4

the Nuer (cattle breeders) and the Anuak (farmers). Their land is being sold to indian and chinese companies by the government to make the most of the land.

Question 5

What is the government doing to try to give people the ability to make money?

Answer 5

Moving 2 million people away from the Ahmar mountains so that they can grow coffee

Question 6

What are the 5 stages of Rostow’s model?

Answer 6

Traditional society, traditional stage, take off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption

Question 7

What are the MDGs?

Answer 7

8 Millenium development goals which the UN devised to be achieved by the end of 2015, which was then extended to 2030. They are: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Achieve universal primary education; Promote gender equality and empower women; Reduce child mortality; Improve maternal health; Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; Ensure environmental sustainability; Global partnership for development.

Question 8

Describe the Western Highlands

Answer 8

One long rainy season (May to October), steep land up to 4500m, temperatures town to 15 degrees celcius but average 25-35 degrees celcius, average 1200-2000mm of rainfall yearly, good for crops

Question 9

Describe the Central Area

Answer 9

Two rainy seasons and one dry season, unreliable rainfall (400-800mm yearly), lowlands are drier and hotter (25-40 degrees celcius)

Question 10

Describe the eastern lowlands

Answer 10

Two rainy seasons and two dry seasons, unreliable rainfall (0-300mm yearly), temperatures consistently 30-40 degrees celsius

Question 11

Give one advantage of TNCs in Ethiopia

Answer 11

Literacy improvement, more money for local markets, products adapted for the local tastes and fashions, improved infrastructure, growth in employment, local community becomes more wealthy

Question 12

Give one disadvantage of TNCs in ethiopia

Answer 12

Gender inequality, ecosystem damage, luring workers away from farming, air miles, locals abandoning traditional clothes and foods, worker health damage, worker exploitation, increasing income inequality

Question 13

Give one positive impact of Afriflora in Ethiopia

Answer 13

Flowers represent 6% of the economy, which Afriflora helps with, trained first aid staff and health and safety committee, access to safe drinking water

Question 14

Give one negative impact of Afriflora in Ethiopia

Answer 14

Ethiopia only recieves 3% of the money made from each flower

Question 15

How has the debt relief in 2006 changed Ethiopia’s debt levels?

Answer 15

the debt went from 155% of the GDP in 1995 to 21% of the GDP in 2012

Question 16

What is the world bank?

Answer 16

An organisation set up to help end severe poverty

Question 17

Describe a bottom up scheme to help Ethiopia

Answer 17

in the Farm Africa Goat Scheme, donations pay for 3 goats to be given to a woman in Tigre. These goats reproduce, and the first 3 kids are given to another woman, spreading the scheme.

Question 18

Describe a top down scheme to help Ethiopia

Answer 18

The Gibe III hydroelectric power scheme is a huge dam which will provide clean electricity and water for many people in Ethiopia

Question 19

Give an advantage of the Gibe III dam

Answer 19

It provides 150,000 jobs, it will double the energy capacity of Ethiopia, it will provide good land for crops which will allow for commercial farming

Question 20

Give an advantage of the Farm Africa Goat Scheme

Answer 20

It improves women’s position in society, it gives women skills in keeping goats, it gives money and goats milk to women, it gives children a chance at education, it gives children better food from goat meat and milk rather than just maize

Question 21

Give a disadvantage of the Gibe III dam

Answer 21

200,000 farmers have been moved off their land, over soldiers were sent to restore order to the areas and they sometimes kill local people, local farmers can’t user the river Omo