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Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is ecologically and culturally highly diverse and the most populous landlocked country worldwide. Its economy largely depends on agriculture and agricultural commodity exports. Farming and herding are key livelihoods to more than 80% of the population. Drought is a major issue in many areas of Ethiopia which is part of the initiative Building Resilience in Africa’s Dry Lands.
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Land Area
112,857,126.5 ha
GDP/Capita
2,319.1 USD
Total population
120,283,000
Urban population
20.8 %
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Agricultural land
37.5 %
Women owning land
0.8 %
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18 December 2023
A project of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, co-funded by the EU and implemented through the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has been striving to ensure that investments in land are productive, contribute to sustainable land management…
08 December 2023
A tablet-based mobile mass registration system, MASSREG software application, is developed and to be piloted to revolutionize the land registration process by enhancing accuracy, efficiency, and data security, according to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia has implemented one…
15 September 2023
Préparer le terrain pour une planification efficace de l'utilisation des terres
Le droit à la terre est un droit fondamental qui a des implications pour d'autres droits, tels que le droit à l'alimentation et le droit à la sécurité. Récemment, les taux élevés de croissance démographique, l'…
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Ethiopia is one of the least urbanized countries in the world with 20.8% living in urban areas. Agriculture, forestry, and livestock contribute directly or indirectly to the livelihoods of more than 80% of the population
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06 August 2024
Photo: Kandukuru Nagarjun, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0
The recent series of ALIGN articles shed light on how civil society, impacted communities and rights defenders across the world have used strategies such as legal action, publishing of mining contracts and stakeholder dialogues to change approaches…
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You are invited to join a lively festival devoted to building an open data community in East Africa and making the linkages between open data and land on May 8th from 5PM-9PM at IHUB.
This festival aims bring together local open data aficionados together with l experts from East Africa and beyond…
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