"Ethiopia" Essays and Research Papers

Ethiopia food shortages. Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Sudan. What is famine? Famine contains three elements: • food shortage • starvation • excess mortality It has a greater effect on the most vulnerable in society. Famine is caused by many factors including: • poor climatic • environmental conditions • population growth • market failure • war. Over half of the Ethiopian...

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Ethiopia As the anthropologists say, all people come from Ethiopians. “Lucy’s” skeleton discovered in 1974 is considered the oldest human “trace”. It is believed that she lived more than 3 million years ago. At 435,071 square miles (1,126,829 km2), Ethiopia is the world's 27th-largest country. The major portion of Ethiopia lies on the Horn of Africa, which is the eastern most part of the African landmass. Bordering Ethiopia are Sudan and South Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Eritrea to the...

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What’s your knowledge about Ethiopia? Usually what pops in one's head when hearing about Ethiopia is the general Bias information that the country suffers from Famine, poverty and it's an over all uncivilized place. Many have asked me if I lived on trees and if my means or transportation was animals. Sometimes I get mad because of peoples ignorance but other times I lead them to believe that I have a pet cheetah. Today, I’m here to inform you about a beautiful country on the highlands of East Africa...

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Marxist era to a more democratic process, where there are three branches of government. The Dreg committee had an influential role in the governmental history of Ethiopia, which was developed by the Marxist ideology. The Dreg attempted to make Ethiopia into a socialist government, with certain land reforms that benefitted some regions of Ethiopia. As they began to face opposition the newly developed party, Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Though all of the transformations in the government, the...

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Timeline Chronological order of major events in the Starbucks vs. Ethiopia dispute over coffee names 2004: Starbucks filed application to register “Shirkina Sun-Dried Sidamo” trademark. Ethiopia asked Starbucks to drop its application because the country is preparing to register the names Sidamo and Harar; Starbucks refused to talk 2005 March : The Government of Ethiopia filed applications with USPTO to trademark Harrar, Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe 2006*: NCA filed a letter of protest asking Ethiopia's...

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Contact Us Mr Abdissa Adugna - Secretary General Tel: +251-11-5156144, 5506043 - Fax +251-11-5508935 P.O. Box: 12898 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia E-mail: elia@elia.org.et aalf@elia.org.et aalf-elia@elia.org.et aalf-elia2@elia.org.et The Ethiopian Leather Industries Association (ELIA) is organizing the All-African Leather Fair (AALF) 2008 which will take place in Addis Ababa from February 20-22, 2013. It will bring together tanners, footwear and other leather goods manufacturers, equipment...

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Poverty in Ethiopia What exactly is a social problem, one may ask. Simply stated, a social problem is a condition arising from operation of society which is viewed as unacceptable by an influential segment of the population and becomes the target of attempted corrective social action. One particular social problem is poverty. Ethiopia is one country that suffers tremendously from poverty. In early 1992, the economy of Ethiopia was in a catastrophic condition and economic performance was...

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by 27 million people. Religion Ethiopia is one of the first countries to adopt Christianity in the 4th century. Addis Ababa is mostly Christianity but 1/3 is Muslims. In 2007 there were 62.8% Christians, 33.9% Islamic, 2.6% Traditional and 0.6% Ethiopian. Countries such as Britain and France had conquered smaller nations in the "Scramble for Africa" in the nineteenth century. In 1896, Italy had attempted to expand in eastern Africa by adding Ethiopia to her conquests (which included Eritrea...

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 Ethiopia has one of the strongest histories of any country in Africa. With the exception of a brief Italian occupation that only lasted five years Ethiopia has remained independent for the rest of their history. However that does not mean that the country has not had its fair share of political and military battles. The most recent change of power was in 1991 when the former military junta or coup groups that had gained power collapsed. The military group was known as the Derg and was plagued...

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Issue Two: Starbucks vs. Ethiopia In March 2005, Ethiopia filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to trademark its coffee names, Harar, Sidamo, and Yirgacheffe, which are three coffee regions in the country. The Ethiopian government had hoped that by forcing coffee buyers into licensing agreements would lead to coffee farmers gaining more control over its coffee trade and earn a bigger slice of the pie by receiving a higher percentage of earnings from the retail price...

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