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In traditional Ethiopian culture, famine was not the outgrowth of natural calamity or the failure of a political and socio-economic system, but an act of god. It was punishment for sin. As such, no human being or institution was to be held responsible. Governments did not mobilize to fight it, for, even if they had viewed it otherwise, there would have been little that they could have done. This changed in the twentieth century as Ethiopia's road network expanded and the world's food stockpiles grew. But traditional attitudes lingered. (it) |
