The Amaro Coffee and Enset Livelihood Zone is a coffee growing zone with significant productive potential, boasting fertile land, good rainfall, and a strong base of drought resistant crops (enset and cassava) to draw on in bad years. Frequent droughts over the past five years have, however, made it increasingly dependent on relief assistance.
The information presented refers to June 2003-May 2004. This was a broadly average year by local standards; i.e. a year in which overall production levels and rural food security as a whole were average when judged in the context of recent years. Provided there are no fundamental and rapid shifts in the economy, the information in this profile is expected to remain valid for approximately five years (i.e. until 2010).