Eritrea

By: Anthony Overbeck

Info

• Area= 45,560 sq mi(118,000 sq km)• Total Population= 5 million• Major cities and populations= Addis

Ababa (pop. 5 million), Dire Dawa (237,000), Nazret (189,000), Gondar (163,000), Dessie (142,000), Mekelle (141,000), Bahir Dar (140,000), Jimma (132,000), Awassa (104,000).

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• Per Capita Income= $900 (purchasing power)• Percentage of People Undernourished= 66-

70%• Natural Resources= Gold, Potash, Copper,

Salt, Oil, Natural Gas, Fish• Agricultural Products= Coffee, Cereals, Pulses,

Oilseeds, Khat, Meat, Hides and Skins• Literacy Rate= 60.5%

Soil Type

• Soil Type= virtually bisected by one of the longest mountain ranges, formed by the processes that formed the Great Rift Valley, with fertile lands to the west, descending to desert in the east

Climate

• Climate= Temperate in the highlands, hot in the lowlands, hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September except in coastal desert

Why is there Hunger?

• Reasons= War, a drought/crop failure beginning in 2000, some western lowlands can no longer be cultivated, 66% of population living below the poverty line, 40% of households are female headed (thus making them especially vulnerable to food insecurity).

Efforts to reduce Hunger

• Resettlement campaign to move IDP’s (internally displaced persons) back to their places of origin, Algiers peace agreement in 2000, Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (which targeted up to 1.26 million people with up to 465,000 metric tons of food over a period of 2 years), 2005=food-for-work, government wants to change it to cash-for-work.

Organization Providing Aid

• WFP (World Food Programme), food aid branch of the United Nations, provides food for 90 million people/year, works to help people who are unable to produce or obtain enough food for themselves and their families, established at the 1960 Food and Agricultural Conference, funded by donation for world governments, corporations, and private donors.

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Sites Used

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2859.htm• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2854.htm• http://www.missourieconomy.org//indicators

/international/cty7741.stm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Eritrea#Geography

Sites Used

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

• http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/eritrea/

• http://www.wfp.org/countries/eritrea• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

World_Food_Programme