Too Many mouth to feed in Ethiopia

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A quarter-century after a million Ethiopians died in the great hunger of 1984-85, the country is heading into another famine. The spring rains failed entirely, and the summer rains were three weeks late.

But why is famine stalking Ethiopia again? The Ethiopian Government is authoritarian, but it isn't incompetent.

It gives fertiliser to farmers and teaches best practices. By the late 90s the country was self-sufficient in food in good years, and the Government had created a strategic food reserve for the bad years.

So why are we back here again? Infant deaths are already over two per 10,000 a day in Somali, the worst-hit region of Ethiopia. (Four a day counts as full-scale famine.)

Countrywide, 20 per cent of the population already depends on the dwindling flow of foreign food aid, and it will get worse for many months yet. What have the Ethiopians done wrong?

The real answer (which everybody carefully avoids) is that they have had too many babies. Ethiopia's population at the time of the last famine was 40 million. Twenty-five years later, it is 80 million. You can do everything else right - give your farmers new tools and skills, fight erosion, create food reserves - and if you don't control the population, you are just spitting into the wind.


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This is so obvious that it should be the start of every conversation about the country. Even if the coming famine in Ethiopia kills a million people, the population will keep growing.

So the next famine, 10 or 15 years from now, will hit a country of 100 million people, trying to make a living from farming on land where only 40 million faced starvation in the 1980s. It is going to get much uglier in Ethiopia.

Yet it's practically taboo to say that. The whole question of population, instead of being central to the debate about development, about food, about climate change, has been put on ice.

The reason, I think, is that the rich countries are secretly embarrassed, and the poor countries are deeply resentful.

Suppose that Ethiopia had been the first country to industrialise. Suppose some mechanical genius in Tigray invented the world's first steam engine in 1710. The first railways were spreading across the country by the 1830s, and at the same time Ethiopian entrepreneurs and imperialists spread all over Africa. By the end of the 19th century, they controlled half of Europe too.

Never mind the improbabilities. The point is that an Ethiopia with such a history would easily be rich enough to support 80 million people now - and if it could not grow enough food for them all, it would just import it.

Just like Britain (where the industrial revolution actually started) imports food. Money makes everything easy.

Ethiopians in the Refugee Camps across the world

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BALAKA, Demeke Zualede, 28, fled drought, conflict and hunger in his homeland, Ethiopia, in 2008. He reached Mozambique but was deported and now lives in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in central Malawi. This is his story.

"There are so many problems in Ethiopia and I had to leave. I was a farmer and when drought hit my area for two years there was no food for everyone. The war in Somalia has affected us too - young men have to join the army to defend our country.

"I left Ethiopia with many other friends, seeking a better livelihood in other countries. We arrived in Kenya some days later, but even there life was not as good as we expected. We kept moving and arrived in Tanzania. There, too, things did not work out for us. The journey from Ethiopia to Malawi took us four months. Most of the trip was covered on foot, hence the long time to arrive in Malawi.

"When we arrived in Malawi we were put in a refugee camp. Most people think we are soldiers, and a danger to society, but some of us are just farmers. The authorities won't let us live in townships. They say we have to be in the camp, but life in the camp is not easy. The food is not enough. We receive a food ration of six kilograms every fortnight.

"In the refugee camp we face a number of problems. We need money, enough food, and all the essentials that one needs to lead a good life. We can't be offered any employment because our status is that of a refugee. We have to live in a camp until the time for repatriation comes.

"The other day we escaped and thought of going to Zimbabwe, where some of our colleagues are working. We heard that our colleagues there are doing fine. With no money, we have to walk long distances. When we crossed over to Mozambique we were arrested and brought back to Malawi.

"My dream to work in South Africa or Zimbabwe has been shattered, but I am not going to give up easily. If an opportunity avails itself I will jump on it and travel to South Africa. I cannot live in camp forever

Liquid Church weekend events in Morristown raise money for Ethiopian wells

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by George!
Monday September 07, 2009, 7:08 AM

By George!
Pastor Tim Lucas of Liquid Church shows his serious side on the Morristown Green on Sunday.Pastor Tim Lucas of Morristown's Liquid Church said yesterday's "Rock and Run for Africa" helped raise $72,000 toward the church's African water project. The church held a 5K run, followed by a rock concert with free food on the Morristown Green.


The church aims to raise $250,000 to buy a drilling rig, to drill one well per week next year in Ethiopia.



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Some distinguished gentlemen await their turn in the inflatable room, at the Liquid Church "Rock and Run for Africa" day on the Morristown Green.
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Ethiopia’s Ethnic Policy Poses Risk of ‘Violent Eruption’

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By Jason McLure

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Ethiopian government’s policy of dividing administration of the country along ethnic lines and its rigid grip on power could lead to a “violent eruption” that may destabilize the country,” the International Crisis Group said.

The division has “sharpened differences” between groups such as Ethiopia’s Oromo and Somali communities as they compete for local control of natural resources, according to the ICG.

“Without genuine multi party democracy, the tensions and pressures in Ethiopia’s polities will only grow” before next year’s elections, the Brussels-based group said in an e-mailed report on Sept.4

A crackdown by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government following 2005 federal and regional elections in which security forces killed at least 193 protesters and arrested an estimated 30,000 people, “demonstrated the extent to which the regime is willing to ignore popular protest and foreign criticism to hold on to power,” according to the report.

After ousting Ethiopia’s former Communist Derg regime in 1991, Meles’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front redrew the administrative regions of the country, basing regional governance along ethnic lines.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jason McLure in Addis Ababa via the Johannesburg bureau at abolleurs@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: September 7, 2009 06:11 EDT

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