result #104455 - ETHIOPIA SUFFERING AFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL AID

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result #104455 - ETHIOPIA SUFFERING AFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL AID

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political : ETHIOPIA SUFFERING AFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL AID

[+] serious ballot by herzog
created Wed Nov 01, 06

Ethiopia is locked into a vicious downward spiral of food aid dependency, a crop monitoring agency has warned.

The Famine Early Warning System says 10.4 million people are dependent on aid and Ethiopia has a chronically high level of food insecurity.

Its report says government measures to reduce this number are failing and the number of people unable to feed themselves will go on rising.

Imported food aid is running at more than 700,000 tonnes a year.

This aid is successful at helping people overcome their immediate needs, Fews says, but it undermines local markets.

Imported food, donated mainly by the United States, depresses the price paid to local farmers, reducing their incentives to invest in better agriculture.

Even in years of good harvests the outlook is bleak, with Ethiopia's food production stagnant, and the country's birth-rate pushing up the current population of 77 million by two million a year.

It says the current harvest outlook is good, but comes on the back of recent poor harvests.

BBC

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So we give them food, which hurts their local farming communities, which in turn requires we give them more food, which further hurts their domestic production, and so on.

What do we do?

Send as much aid as the immediate situation requires and worry about the consequences later	77%
Stop sending aid, not our problem	9%
Abstain	9%
Stop sending aid, and replace it with agricultural assistance	4%
work to reduce food shipments over time	0%

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I would say we shouldn't have started this mutually harmful relationship in the firstplace, but that's done and can't be changed.

So now, since we helped create the problem, I think we should work to lower food donations every year, and mix that with agricultural assistance to undo the damage done by western bleeding hearts who don't seem to understand basic economics.

by herzog on Wed Nov 01, 06 6:03am [+]

I'm not touching this one with a ten-foot pole.

by xxxxxxxx on Wed Nov 01, 06 8:19am [+]

Voted : Abstain
I don't know

by xxxxxxxx on Wed Nov 01, 06 8:20am [+]

Socrates: if the western world is causing or contributing to these problems we ought to take notice.

by herzog on Wed Nov 01, 06 3:40pm [+]

And no one had the courage to answer.

by herzog on Thu Nov 02, 06 5:05pm [+]

Let 'em starve if thgey can't produce. We should send only seed and irrigation equip. and only for a set time period. The world's got too many people, and better them than me.

by xxxxxxxx on Fri Nov 03, 06 9:31am [+]

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