Ethiopi Drought, Food Insecurity, And Famine

The continent is bombarded with severe problems regarding drought, food insecurity and famine, more especially in certain parts of Africa. This essay will be analysing and assessing the recurring problems that Ethiopia is faced with, in terms of food production, food distribution, climatic issues and hunger. Ethiopia’s frugality mostly relies on agriculture, natural causes, such as drought and occasionally erratic flooding put the whole Ethiopian economy in a very bad state and leave many societies hungry. The main cause of this transitory food insecurity came from heavy drought and war that the country endured over the years. These factors wreaked seasonal major of cyclical food insecurity. The affected lands and spaces within the country

Generally, in poor countries, where there are always famished and hungry people. In most countries there are seasonal hunger, a season where people would go hungry for days without any means of trying to curb poverty, normally months just before harvest. Societies become debilitated as a result of not having sufficient nutrient for days. When hunger persist for a longer period, covering a large number of the population and resulting in a mass migration and death, it then becomes famine, (Ayalew, 1988)

This was the inevitable status and situation that the government of Ethiopia was faced with in the long run due to the current state of drought and war. The country was falling and failing in every sector and they were still not equipped with resources and systems in place to tackle this food scarcity and rapidly down grading economy.

Famine and hunger are both rooted in food insecurity and food scarcity was to soon be rooted in the country. The term Food insecurity can be categorized as either chronic or transitory. Chronic food insecurity translates into a high level of vulnerability to famine and hunger, ensuring food security presupposes elimination of that vulnerability. Vulnerable populations can reach a standard of famine with few abnormalities in the food production, distribution process. Therefore, in the face of chronic food insecurity there is always

The implications for food security in the longer term are twofold. On the other hand, a structural transformation of agriculture has to be installed, for example, through the emergence of technological inputs, or land tenure reform to raise yields. On the other hand, provided with inherent vulnerability of agriculture, the keys of agriculture in the economy must eventually be cut to a minimal number by significantly improving growth in other sector (Befekadu and Berhanu,