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Ethiopia Faces a New Food Crisis
Aug. 5 2008
By Edmund Sanders
They call it the green hunger.
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.
"It's strange to see hunger when everything is so green," said Wariso Shete, 26, a southern Ethiopia farmer who recently buried his 3-year-old son. "But there is no food. The boy just starved."
Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 5 August 2008
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