Editing Economy of Ethiopia (section)

=== Agriculture, forestry and fishing ===
[[File:Specialty coffee originated from ethiopia.jpg|left|thumb|Coffee sorting process is huge since Ethiopia exports over a billion dollars' worth of coffee globally]]
[[File:Ethiopia econ 1976.jpg|236x236px|thumb|Map of economic activities in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1976)]]
{{See also|Agriculture in Ethiopia|Fishing in Ethiopia|Forestry in Ethiopia|label 1=Agriculture|label 2=Fishing}}

{{As of|2015}}, agriculture accounts for almost 40.5% of GDP, 81 percent of exports, and 85 percent of the [[Workforce|labour force]].<ref name="CIA">{{cite web|title=Ethiopia. CIA The World Fact Book|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ethiopia/|publisher=CIA Factbook|access-date=10 January 2017}}</ref> Many other economic activities depend on agriculture, including marketing, processing, and export of agricultural products. Production is overwhelmingly of a subsistence nature, and a large part of commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cash-crop sector. Principal crops include [[coffee production in Ethiopia|coffee]], [[Pulse (legume)|pulse]]s (e.g., beans), [[rapeseed|oilseeds]], [[cereal]]s, potatoes, [[sugarcane]], and vegetables.  Exports are almost entirely agricultural commodities, with [[coffee]] as the largest foreign exchange earner, and its flower industry becoming a new source of revenue: for 2005/2006 (the latest year available) Ethiopia's coffee exports represented 0.9% of the world exports, and [[oilseeds]] and flowers each representing 0.5%.<ref>[http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=22219.0 "The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Selected Issues Series"], International Monetary Fund Country Report No. 08/259, pp. 35f (Retrieved 4 February 2009)</ref> Ethiopia is Africa's second biggest [[maize]] producer.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9304411 | newspaper=The Economist| title=Get the gangsters out of the food chain | date=7 June 2007}}</ref> In 2000, Ethiopia's [[livestock]] contributed to 19% of total GDP.<ref>{{cite web|title=Livestock Sector Brief: Ethiopia|url=http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/publications/sector_briefs/lsb_ETH.pdf|work=FAO Country Profiles|publisher=FAO|access-date=7 November 2011|author=Food and Agriculture Organization|author-link=Food and Agriculture Organization|page=1|date=May 2004}}</ref>

{{As of|2008}}, some countries that import most of their food, such as [[Saudi Arabia]], have begun planning the purchase and [[land development|development]] of large tracts of arable land in developing countries such as Ethiopia.<ref name="ft_2008-08-20">{{cite news |title=Arable Land, the new gold rush |first=Javier |last=Blas |author2=Andrew England |url=http://en.afrik.com/article14301.html |newspaper=Financial Times |location=London |date=20 August 2008 |access-date=6 November 2009 |quote=Meles Zenawi, the prime minister of Ethiopia, is also enthusiastic. After welcoming a Saudi agriculture delegation a fortnight ago, he said: 'We told them [the Saudis] that we would be very eager to provide hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land for investment.' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923112001/http://en.afrik.com/article14301.html |archive-date=23 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This [[land grabbing]] has raised fears of food being exported to more prosperous countries while the local population faces its own shortage.<ref name="ft_2008-08-20" />

[[Forest product]]s are mainly logs used in construction. The [[Silviculture|silvicutural]] products are used in [[construction]] and [[manufacturing]], and as [[Energy development|energy sources]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wakjira|first1=Dereje T.|last2=Gole|first2=Tadesse W.|year=2007|title=Customary Forest Tenure in Southwest Ethiopia|journal=Forests, Trees and Livelihoods|volume=17|issue=4|pages=325–338|doi=10.1080/14728028.2007.9752607|s2cid=167720625|issn=1472-8028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Silviculture in the Tropics|last1=Lemenih|first1=Mulugeta|last2=Bongers|first2=Frans|chapter=Dry Forests of Ethiopia and Their Silviculture |date=1 January 2011|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=9783642199851|editor-last=Günter|editor-first=Sven|series=Tropical Forestry|volume=8|pages=261–272|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-19986-8_17|editor-last2=Weber|editor-first2=Michael|editor-last3=Stimm|editor-first3=Bernd|editor-last4=Mosandl|editor-first4=Reinhard}}</ref>
Ethiopia's [[Fishery|fisheries]] are entirely [[fresh water]], as it has no marine [[coast]]line. Although total production has been continuously increasing since 2007, the fishing industry is a very small part of the economy. Fishing is predominantly [[Artisanal fishing|artisanal]]. In 2014, nearly 45,000 fishermen were employed in the sector with only 30% of them employed full-time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/fishery/facp/ETH/en|title=Fisheries & Aquaculture - Country Profile|date=1 October 2015|series=Ethiopia|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170111113716/http://www.fao.org/fishery/facp/ETH/en|archive-date=11 January 2017|url-status=live|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>

In 2018, Ethiopia produced the following goods:<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethiopia production in 2018, by FAO |url=http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC/}}</ref>

* 7.3 million tons of [[maize]] (17th largest producer in the world)
* 4.9 million tons of [[sorghum]] (4th largest producer in the world)
* 4.2 million tons of [[wheat]] 
* 2.1 million tons of [[barley]] (17th largest producer in the world)
* 1.8 million tons of [[sweet potato]] (5th largest producer in the world)
* 1.4 million tons of [[sugar cane]]
* 1.3 million tons of [[Yam (vegetable)|yam]] (5th largest producer in the world)
* 988 thousand tons of [[broad bean]]
* 982 thousand tons of [[millet]]
* 743 thousand tons of [[potato]]
* 599 thousand tons of [[vegetable]]
* 515 thousand tons of [[chick pea]] (6th largest producer in the world)
* 508 thousand tons of [[banana]]
* 470 thousand tons of [[coffee]] (6th largest producer in the world)
* 446 thousand tons of [[cabbage]]
* 374 thousand tons of [[pea]] (20th largest producer in the world)
* 322 thousand tons of [[onion]]
* 301 thousand tons of [[sesame seed]] (7th largest producer in the world)
* 294 thousand tons of [[bell pepper]]
* 172 thousand tons of [[lentil]] (11th largest producer in the world)
* 144 thousand tons of [[rice]]
* 143 thousand tons of [[peanut]]
* 140 thousand tons of [[cotton]]
* 124 thousand tons of [[garlic]]
* 102 thousand tons of [[mango]] (including [[mangosteen]] and [[guava]])
* 101 thousand tons of [[linseed]] (7th largest producer in the world)