its current climate varies from very dry to very wet and five types of agroecology zones are identified moisturereliable humid lowlands moisturesufficient highlands cerealsbased moisturesufficient highlands ensetbased droughtprone highlands and arid lowland plains pastoralism the economy is highly dependent on agriculture and current climatic variability as well as future climate change poses challenges to achieving ethiopia s green economy objectives even though ethiopia has a largely rural population with million living in rural areas million people live in urban areas in the majority in addis ababa and urbanisation is proceeding at a rapid