Ethiopia: Farm-to-Market logistics network

This map intersects, where food is grown, where people live, and how they reach markets (roads and railway) to depict the Ethiopian logistics network, supporting ≈130 M people and a share agriculture of ≈36% of GDP. The main railway route, the Addis Ababa–Djibouti (orange corridor in the map) is the only international seaport access that move ~95% of country's external trade, including coffee , oilseeds, cut flowers, vegetables. Currently, some cities (nodes) feed this corridor, with a last main hub in the capital. As consequence we proposed the following ideas: (1) decentralized flows away from Addis by strengthening secondary hubs with cooled distribution centers and, (2) improve rural access and last-mile connectivity to reduce cost, losses and seasonality. Acknowledgment: This map was jointly produced with Luis Pachon (University of Pittsburgh) for the 2025 Global Sustainability Supply Chain Student Competition project.