USA TODAY : Ethiopia’s new famine: ‘A ticking time bomb’

By admin on August 18th, 2008

KONSO, Ethiopia — Once, the farmers walked for hours to bring their sorghum and maize here to market. These days they trod the same paths, parched grass crunching under foot, to carry their starving children to a feeding clinic.

Like crops, the children are weighed (in a nylon harness seat attached to a scale) and measured (with a tape to record arm circumference). The most severely malnourished are kept overnight for up to a month; the rest go home with a week’s supply of Plumpy’nut, a nutritional paste.

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