This film documents the failure of Western development policy in Africa, and shows how a community of impoverished Ethiopian farmers are working themselves out of poverty through collectivization and micro-finance initiatives.
Or the Ethiopian farmers?
The United Nations was able to quantify the effect of certain levels of rainfall on Ethiopian farmers' incomes.
He was awarded Young Journalist of the Year by the UK Foreign Press Association for coverage of the forcible relocation of two million Ethiopian farmers in the largest resettlement program ever attempted in Africa.
Bercele Bayisa, an Ethiopian farmer, offers one example why deforestation occurs.
Although he is unable to determine exactly when and where coffee was first consumed, Wild believes that its effect as a stimulant was first discovered by Ethiopian farmers.
At issue was Starbucks' use of Ethiopia's famed coffee brands-Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar-that generate high margins for Starbucks and cost consumers a premium, yet generated very low prices to Ethiopian farmers.
The desho grazing land management intervention has significant positive impacts on the livelihoods of Ethiopian farmers.
Livestock production accounts for approximately 40% of the average household income of an Ethiopian farmer.
Bercele Bayisa, a 30 year old Ethiopian farmer said "his district was very forested and full of wildlife but, overpopulation cased people to come to this fertile land and clear it to plant crops, cutting all trees to sell as fire wood".