Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 11 No. 30 Combating Famine: A Revolutionary Strategy

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Combating Famine: A Revolutionary Strategy
Author:	Kirsty Wright
Location:	Vol.11 No.30 (Autumn 1984), pp100-105

Five years of drought have gripped Tigray province in northern Ethiopia. Population movements across the highland massif, down the escarpment and into the relatively fertile western region have been enormous as harvests fail and oxen die. Recent nutritional surveys indicate that over 22 per cent of the children in the drought belt that stretches from deep in the south of Tigray across the central highlands and down the eastern escarpment are severely malnourished.

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