Ethiopia, a country in Africa, is constantly plagued by poverty, disease, weather, which all lead to the largest problem facing Ethiopia, the food shortage. All of these are factors of the hunger problem, but the root to all of the factors is the population. The recent population explosion is the main factor of the food shortage in Ethiopia, and contributes to poverty and disease as well.
According to Plan Ethiopia, an aid service for the shortage problem, over the past three years the food shortage has been increasing (http://www.plan-uk.org/wherewework/eastafricaeurope/ethiopia/foodshortage/situation/). Along with the population problem, there are several factors contributing to the food insecurity in Ethiopia: weather, poverty, shortage of food banks and disfavoring of women and children. 85% of the people in Ethiopia rely on crops as their food supply, as well as income. With the severe droughts and even in torrential rains, the crop fields are ruined (http://www.plan-uk.org/). Another factor to the food insecurity is the shortage of local Food Banks as well as donors. Nairobi Bureau Chief Catherine Bond states that "last year major food aid donors such as the United States and the United Nations borrowed heavily without paying back, a debt which the government says created a food shortage that donors say has only just been reversed" (http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/04/18/.
ethiopia.survival.story/). With wealthy, powerful nations borrowing from this tiny, poor country and not repaying until recently, Ethiopia has been unable to provide food aid to those in need of it because of lack of funding. The issue of nations borrowing and not repaying also attributes to the poverty of the country. According to AllAfrica.com, there is an increase in households ran by women. In Ethiopia, women are more disadvantaged, as it is usual for the men to be the breadwinners, and unable to care for themselves and their children (http://allafrica.
