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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bean there, done khat Tales from a trek to Ethiopia with a Seattle coffee roaster	Michael Hebberoy	01 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I have spent the past year traveling the globe with Seattle coffee roaster Caffé Vita in their search for coffee, and I have the more enviable and slippery task of seeking out stories. Many Grist readers know that coffee is the second most heavily traded commodity on the planet, but unlike the elephant in the pole position (oil), we hear very little about the realities of the cherry-red fruit on which we are also dependent. As long as Grist lets me, I will throw ...
Topics: agriculture, Ethiopia, food, water crisis (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Climate change and the Third World Ethiopian leader lays out the real inconvenient truth on climate	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, laid out the, ahem, inconvenient truth: That countries like his suffer because of what countries like ours have done, and that a world-wide cap-and-trade treaty would have to allow countries like Ethiopia to sell carbon allocations to countries like the United States. He says the funds would be used to invest in green energy. Of course, they could also end up spent on Ethiopia's continuing quest to take over Somalia, so, it ...
Topics: politics, international politics, climate, Ethiopia (all these topics)

But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company		24 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
But By All Means, Keep Filling Your Tank Gunmen attack Ethiopian oil field run by Chinese company A story unfolding at press time gives a taste of that global energy-security issue everyone's worried about: according to news reports, gunmen attacked an oil field in eastern Ethiopia run by a Chinese company, killing 65 local workers and nine Chinese workers, and taking seven Chinese hostages. Xu Shuang, acting manager o ...
Topics: China, energy, Ethiopia, news, oil (all these topics)

Right before my very eyes: Ethiopia	Geoff Dabelko	01 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The vista of Ethiopia's ancient Rift Valley, speckled with shimmering lakes, stretches before me as our motorized caravan heads south from Lake Langano, part of a study tour on population-health-environment issues organized by the Packard Foundation. Sadly, the country's unrelenting poverty and insecurity are as breathtaking as the view -- Ethiopia currently ranks 170 out of 177 countries on the UN Development Programme's Human Development Index. These numbers beco ...
Topics: environmental justice, Ethiopia, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Afri-can Do		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ...
Topics: Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

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