Famines in Ethiopia

Famines in Ethiopia

Traditionally the Economy of Ethiopia was based on subsistence agriculture, with an aristocracy that consumed the surplus. Due to a number of causes, the peasants lacked incentives to either improve production or to store their excess harvest; as a result, they lived from harvest to harvest.

Despite the extensive modernization of Ethiopia in the last 120 years, as of 2006 the overwhelming majority of the population are peasants who still live from harvest to harvest, and are vulnerable to crop failures.

See also

* List of famines

References

Unless indicated otherwise, information is based on the following sources:
*For the period before 1800, Richard R.K. Pankhurst, "An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia" (London: Lalibela House, 1961), pp. 236f; information about related epidemics taken from Pankhurst "Introduction", pp. 239f.

*For the period after 1800 through 1935, Pankhurst, "Economic History of Ethiopia" (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University Press, 1968), pp. 216-222.

External links

* [http://www.dppc.gov.et/ Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA) of Ethiopia Home page]


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