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Title: | Food and Politics: A Case Study of Ethiopia |
Author: | Johnson, Willene A. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Horn of Africa |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January-March |
Pages: | 28-35 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | food aid Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government |
Abstract: | The successful implementation of food aid depends on the structure and fuctioning of several distinct but interrelated political economies: the political economy of the national government that receives the aid, of the international organisations that may become involved in a crisis situation, and of the relationship that exists between the donor nation and the aid-receiving nation under bilateral agreements. A case study of Ethiopia, which from 1972 through 1974 suffered a severe famine resulting in the death of hundreds of thouseands of Ethiopians, shows how hunger became a political issue. The 'politics of starvation' involves conscious political choices on the national, bilateral (United States-Imperial Ethiopian Government), and international level, which lead to cover-ups of the crisis and the failure of famine relief. Notes. |