The Color of Famine
“They call it the green huger. Four-foot cornstalks sprout from rain-soaked earth, and wind billows fields of teff, the staple Ethiopian grain, goats and cattle are getting fat on lush grasses — but the children are still dying”. Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times, (August 5, 2008)
I have come across many references to the current widespread hunger in Ethiopia as a “green famine”. The term appears to be used to make a distinction between famine caused by the shortage of food due to drought and the kind of famine that occurs side by side with periods of good rains, harvest and grain production.
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