The Hungry and the Powerless: Understanding the Politics of Malnutrition in Oromia and Ethiopia
Written by Kulani Jalata   


Introduction:

Although farmers of Asia, Africa, and Latin America produced over half of the grain harvested worldwide during 1989-90, Patricia L. Kutzner in her 1991 work Contemporary World Issues: World Hunger points out that at least a billion people within those continents during that harvest period suffered from hunger. Today, nineteen years after institutional responses and media coverage on the world hunger crisis, this paradox, in which food exists in abundance amidst intensifying world hunger, still plagues the most vulnerable parts of the world. Download the attachment to read the full article.

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