The Real Cause Of Famine In Ethiopia - Statistical Data Included

Ecologist, The, Sept, 2000 by Michel Chossudovsky

This destructive pattern -- invariably resulting in famine -- is replicated throughout sub-Saharan Africa. From the onslaught of the debt crisis of the early 1980s, the IMF-World Bank have 'set the stage' for the demise of the peasant economy across the region with devastating results. Now, in Ethiopia, 15 years after the last famine left nearly one million dead, hunger is once again stalking the land. This time, as eight million people face the risk of starvation, we know that it isn't just the weather that is to blame.

Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and is the author of The Globalisation of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network (Penang and Zed Books, London, 1997. Second revised and enlarged edition forthcoming with Common Courage Press).