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| Ethiopia food aid 'habit' worsens | Ethiopia food aid 'habit' worsens |
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| Ethiopia is locked into a vicious downward spiral of food aid dependency, a crop monitoring agency has warned. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | It says the current harvest outlook is good, but comes on the back of recent poor harvests. |