Innovation in Environmental Leadership

11    Ending the Drought: Nurturing Environmental Leadership in Ethiopia

Fentahun Mengistu, Girma Shimelis, Vachel Miller

Introduction

Climate change has become a matter of global environmental justice (Selby, 2010). This is particularly the case in Africa, where countries that have contributed little to global carbon emissions face harsh consequences for impending climate disruption. In Ethiopia, those consequences involve persistent droughts, shorter growing seasons, shifting rainfall patterns, reduced agricultural production, and greater food insecurity. Climate change is also expected to result in intensified income inequality within the next 35 to 60 years (Hadgu et al., 2015; Mideksa, 2010; Siraj et al., 2014) as well as increased migration ...