Climate change could have a devastating effect on this already vulnerable country. More uncertainty in patterns of rainfall threatens to undermine the basis for current food security strategies. This would have serious implications for Ethiopian social infrastructure, which has virtually no capacity to adapt.
Over the last four decades, Ethiopia has repeatedly been hit by drought. Faced with famine, time and again its people have had to sell precious assets such as cattle and ploughs to survive
Ministers from 10 African nations meet at the African Union Climate Change Summit to agree common position in lead up to Copenhagen