Horn of Africa Script

Location:

It is a great place to live or travel. There are many water sources and acquiring food isn’t hard.
The Horn of Africa is blessed with abundant natural and human resources but with insufficient
infrastructure to produce and distribute. Hydropower and hydrocarbons are to the Horn of
Africa what “coal and steel” were once to the integration of a war-ravaged Europe. Horn of
Africa, region of eastern Africa. It is the easternmost extension of African land and for the purposes
of this article is defined as the region that is home to the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
and Somalia, whose cultures have been linked throughout their long history

Climate:

Africa can easily be said to contribute the least of any continent to global warming. Each
year Africa produces an average of just over 1 metric ton of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide per
person.

Physical Features:

The Nile River. Valley and the Great Rift Valley. Between these two features are high Plateaus and
rugged volcanic mountains. West of the White Nile River spans the great and vast Sahara Desert. The
Great Rift Valley rises to just over 1 mi (1.6 km) above sea level in central Ethiopia and then drops
well below sea level in the Danakil (or Dallol) Depression. Some places in the depression are over
328 ft (100 m) below sea level making it one of the lowest places on Earth not covered in water.

Coffee Farming:

Even though Ethiopia has improved practices and made important progress all along its coffee value
chain, its coffee farmers lag behind. Improved coffee plant varieties remain out of reach for too
many farmers, the adoption of better processing techniques has been slow, and the rising potential
for disease and weather shocks due to climate change is leaving farmers increasingly vulnerable.
Coffee is one of the most important globally traded agricultural commodities. Consumption
occurring mostly in developed countries and production in developing ones. Ethiopia is the biggest
exporter of coffee in Africa, and coffee accounts for 22 percent of the country’s commodity exports.
In global markets, Ethiopia’s Arabica coffee is valued for its unique taste. Ninety five percent of the
country’s coffee is cultivated by an estimated 4 million primarily smallholder, often poor, farming
households. Yet despite its leading position in Africa and the positive changes made in the coffee
trade in the last decade, the Ethiopian coffee sector is underperforming, according to recent
research by experts. Ethiopian yields are slightly higher than those of Kenya and Rwanda, but lower
than Uganda’s—and only one half to one third the size of major Latin American producers.
Ethiopian farmers, meanwhile, receive a smaller share of export prices compared to most other
countries.