Agricultural Problems in Ethiopia
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8121200784
Length
viii+254p., Figure; Tables; Bibliography; Index; Appendix; 23cm.
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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 ...
