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This chapter presents Ethiopia's agricultural resource base - land, water, agroecological/agroclimatic conditions, crop and livestock diversity, human population and institutional capacity. The country possesses approximately 38 million ha of agricultural land, of which about 16 million ha is arable, leaving approximately 22 million ha that is available for further development. Ethiopia has a dozen river basins and nearly 125 billion cubic metres of combined surface and underground water per annum. It is the land of wide-ranging agroecological/agroclimat- ic diversity where more than 70 plant species are cultivated and the largest head of livestock in Africa is raised each year. The country's population in 2022 of ~121 million comprises 28% between the age of 15 and 29 years and projected to reach ~205 million by 2050. Ethiopia has widely distributed research centres, >3000 researchers, 15,000 farmer training centres and a development agent to smallholder farmer ratio of 1:230, the densest in Africa.

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