Highlands of Ethiopia
Most of Ethiopia's arable and fertile lands are located on top of high plateaus. For this reason, these parts of the country are highly populated and the land is overused by thousands of years of subsistence farming which mostly depends on rain coming from the two rainy seasons each year. The short rainy season which starts at the end of March and ends in April and the long which starts in June and ends in around the second week of September, any disruption to the rain pattern causes huge difficulty for farmers and the farming economy were more than 80% of the population is directly dependent on. Overpopulation deforestation and global climate change are making these disruptions a regular occurrence. Population growth without an economic growth matching it is the biggest challenge that the country faces now. Farming had been hiding a very high unemployment rate of the youth for 4 decades but it is now at a point which it can no longer do so. Subsistence farming alone can no l...