High-altitude farming on the edge of Simien National Park, the highest point in Ethiopia. Subsistence agriculture is having significant impact on the fragile Afro-alpine environment here, with severe soil erosion from farming on steep slopes and over-grazing, often inside the park boundary.
Some 90% of Ethiopia's 110 million people are small-scale agriculturalists, with scarcely any cash crop for income or access to electricity and plumbing. But change is coming rapidly, with new hydroelectric dams, and one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa.
