Despite its long history of self-sufficiency, Ethiopia has experienced crop failures repeatedly during the last two decades. Famine of 1972-73 led to the death of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians. It has been estimated that about one-fifth of the population of Wollo province had died from starvation. In 1984, the country again underwent a prolonged period of drought and famine with a severity that approached that of 1972-73. It affected about one-fourth of the ...
