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Africa needs help to boost agriculture, apart from emergency relief

By: Chogolisa send a private message
Addis Ababa : Ethiopia | about 1 year ago  
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Berzeghin Hailu calls on one of her neighbours daily, turn by turn, in the hope of being offered a meal or a package of food for the children, but of late she has become used to returning empty-handed and hungry. "I am used to sleeping on an empty stomach, but my youngest boy still cries at night from the hunger," she tells Globe and Mail reporter Nicholas Benequesta.

During the never-ending famine of the 1980s, international relief kept the wolf from her door. This year the spring harvest failed and world food prices have escalated. Fortunately, the international community will provide at least $500-million in emergency relief to Ethiopia, the largest aid effort here in five years.

Like the 10 million other Ethiopians who will benefit from foreign relief, Berzeghin Hailu's condition underscores a failing of international aid: Resources are available for emergencies but not for rural development. And Africa needs more abundant international financial and technical aid to boost its agricultural production if it is every to escape the dependency syndrome, and be able to feed its growing population.

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