Ethiopia launches 150 billion USD green growth strategy

Dubbed Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE), the initiative sets out the dual objective of lifting Ethiopia to middle income economy by 2025 while keeping greenhouse gas emissions constant.   

The CRGE makes Ethiopia the first African country with such implementation strategy.  

Famines in Ethiopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Despite the extensive modernization of Ethiopia in the last 120 years, as of 2006^[update] the overwhelming majority of the population are peasants who still live from harvest to harvest, and are vulnerable to crop failures. This is exacerbated by a very high population growth rate, which is among the top 10 countries in the world.