As repeated food security crisis assail countries in the Horn and East of Africa, are life saving humanitarian responses inadvertently creating / artificially sustaining unviable livelihood systems?
For the last four decades the world has been hearing about droughts in Sub Saharan Africa and the food crisis. Another one is upon us and the UN has already announced a famine in Somalia. Once again failure of rain is being blamed for the situation. May be true but is it the whole truth? Don’t think so. Read on to see WHAT I think are the core causes.
Can we afford to be romantic in the war against poverty? Or do we need to be hard nosed, practical and far seeing to make a difference to the lives of the poor?
