Case Study: Famine in Ethiopia
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- Famine In Ethiopia
- Causes
- combination of natural events and human mismanagement
- lack of access to food, rather than lack of food itself
- Droughts - soil moisture levels won't be right for certain plants
- problem for towns dependent on agriculture
- Population increase greater than food production rate
- Refugees fleeing the civil war
- Price of food/ animals increases
- Quality of land decreases or breakdown in the local economy
- Panic buying leads to shortages of basic foods
- When?
- 1984-85 -Initial famines due to civil war and drought
- 2000 - occurred again due to drought
- Responses
- Initially, non-government organisations such as Oxfam provided aid - then international governments became involved
- Live Aid was hugely successful in providing awareness and money for the famine
- Early warning system was set up to predict poor rainfall conditions
- Government held 350,000 tonnes of food until 2000 famine when it dropped to 50,000 and hasn't been replaced
- Impact
- 1 million were killed in both famines
- 1984 - 1 person killed every 20 minutes due to undernourishment
- 2000 - severe drought affected 43% of the population
- 2000 - 95% of livestock either died due to the drought or were killed for emergency food
- conditions in refugee camps and malnourishment lead to spread of diseases such as TB
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